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STATE OF NEW YORK. 


No. 22. 


EN SHNA LE, 


January 20, 1874. 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM THE GOVERNOR, TRANSMITTING THE COMMIS- 
SIONERS’ REPORT OF INVESTIGATION OF THE STATE 
REFORMATORY AT ELMIRA, NEW YORK. 


STATE OF NEW YORK: 


EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, 
ALBANY, January 20, 1874. 


To the Senate: 


I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the commis- 
sioners for the erection of the State Reformatory at Elmira, pursuant 
to your resolution of the 24th of May, 1873. 


‘ JOHN A. DIX. 


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To His Excellency JoHN A. Dix, 
Governor of the State of New York: 


The commissioners for the erection of the State Reformatory at 
Elmira, New York, appointed under the provisions of chapter 60 of 
the Laws of 1873, in pursuance of the provisions of the resolution 
of the honorable the senate of the state of New York, passed May 
24th, 1873, of which the following is a copy, viz.: 

“ Resolved, That the commissioners to be appointed by the governor 
to superintend the construction of the said State Reformatory be 
authorized and instructed to thoroughly investigate the action and 
proceedings of the present and previous commissioners, and that they 
inquire into all contracts and expenditures made by said commission- 
ers for any and all purposes whatsoever, and that they also inquire and 
ascertain whether any of said commissioners, or any officers appointed 
by them, have been guilty of any acts of negligence or fraud through 
which the interests of the state have suffered, and that said commis- 
sioners be also authorized to inquire generally and particularly into all 
the affairs of the said reformatory, and all the acts of the present and 
previous commissioners and their affairs. 

“ And for that purpose they are hereby invested with all power and 
authority of a legislative committee authorized to send for persons and 
papers, and to examine witnesses under oath. 

“ Said commissioners are directed to report the result of their inves- 
tigations for transmission to the next legislature.” 

Hereby submit their report, as in said resolution required, upon the 
matter therein mentioned. 


THE COMMISSIONERS — THEIR ORGANIZATION. 


In pursuance of the provisions of chapter 427 of the Laws of 1870, 
Governor Hoffman appointed C. CO. B. Walker, of Corning; 5. T. Arnot 
and FF. H. Atkinson, of Elmira ; A. H. Miller, of Owego, and Amos 
Pilsbury, of Albany, commissioners for the erection of the proposed 
State Reformatory at Elmira, New York; and they duly organized at 
a meeting held at Albany, on June 21st, 1870, by the selection of C. 
C. B. Walker, president; F. H. Atkinson, secretary, and 8. T. Arnot 
treasurer. On September 28th following, Commissioners Miller, Arnot 
and Atkinson were appointed an executive committee to have imme- 
diate charge of constructing the reservoir and conducting the water to 
the site of the proposed building, and to have general charge of the 


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work of erecting the reformatory until otherwise ordered. August 16, 
Commissioners Walker and Atkinson were appointed as auditing com- 
mittee, and thereafter, August 21, Miller was added to such committee. 
Mr. Pilsbury resigned in September, 1871, and Joseph Warren, of Buf- 
falo, was appointed in his place. 

By virtue of the provisions of chapter 733 of the Laws of 1872, 
passed May 15, a new commission was formed of William Dundas, 
Frank -H. Atkinson, Samuel C. Taber, John Davis Baldwin, and 
Stephen 'T. Arnot, of Elmira; Charles C. B. Walker, of Corning; 
Charles D. Champlin, of Urbana; Ezra 8. Buckbee and Abram H. 
Miller, of Owego. Such new commission organized on the 29th day 
of May, 1872, by the election of John Davis Baldwin as president, 
Samuel C. ‘Taber as secretary, and Wiliam Dundas as treasurer. 

An executive committee was appointed, consisting of Commissioners 
Walker, Arnot, Champlin, Taber and Baldwin. Commissioners Miller, 
Taber and Champlin were appointed an auditing committee. At the 
next meeting, June 28, Commissioner Taber was appointed assistant 
treasurer, with power to perform the duties of the office of treasurer, 
and was also employed to take charge of the commissioners’ office, and 
of the business connected therewith, and to perform the clerical and 
other labors therein required, for which he received a compensation of 
$200 per month, dating back to May 30, 1872. 

The last-named commission was superseded by the appointment of 
the present commissioners, under the provisions of chapter 600 of the 
Laws of 1873, passed May 23. 


COMMISSIONERS’ OFFICE. 


On June 4, 1871, the commission directed the executive committee 
to rent suitable rooms for an office for the commissioners, and to suit- 
ably fit up and furnish the same as soon as practicable. Such com- 
mittee, at a meeting held June 30, 1871, determined to rent the rooms 
situate in the building on the corner of Baldwin and Carroll streets, 
known as “Stancliff Hall,” at an annual rental of $300, and entered 
into a lease for the same accordingly with Mrs. 8. T. Reynolds, the 
owner of said building. Said office consists of two large rooms oppo- 
site to each other on either side of a hall, with a small consulting room 
connected with each. : 

The committee proceeded to furnish the same in apn extravagant 
manner. Some articles of furniture were rejected by the commis- 
sioners, but the amount for furnishing the rooms, finally audited and 
paid, was $2,096.14. Such rooms are still occupied by the commis- 
sioners. 


CLERKS, SUPERINTENDENT AND ENGINEER, FOREMAN, ETC., EMPLOYED 
BY FIRST COMMISSION, AND THEIR SALARIES. 


James F. Pumpelly was employed as clerk September 26, 1871, at a 
salary of $1,000 per year. November 10, 1871, his salary was increased 
to $1,200 per year, to date back to the time of his appointment. i 
~ Daniel L. Jenks was employed as a general foreman in the fall of 
1870, at $5 per day. June 21, 1871, his pay was increased to $6 per 
day. He was discharged in October, 1871, by the superintendent and 
engineer then in charge. November 10 the commission, by a resolu- 


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tion, ratified the act of the superintendent and engineer in dis scharging 
him, and also passed a resolution giving him $6 per day from the time 
he commenced service,and $150 for traveling expenses. Commissioner 
Arnot voted in the negative upon the last resolution. 

On June 10, 1871, A. C. Bishop was appointed superintendent and 
engineer, at a salary of $2,500 per annum. August 16 his salary was 
increased to $3,000 per annum, and to date back to June 20, 1871. 

November 10, 1871, the commissioners directed the executive com- 
mittee to enter into a contract with said Bishop for two years’ service 
as such superintendent and engineer, at a yearly salary of $3,000. He 
sent in his resignation May 21, 1872, to take effect the 31st day of the 
month. At the request of the second commission he continued to act 
until the middle of June, and drew pay until the 30th day of June, 
1872. 

James Sloan was employed as a master-mason August 20, 1870, at 
the price of $5 per day. November 10, 1871, his pay was increased to 
$6 per day for all time actually employed by him in the service of the 
commission. 


CLERKS, SUPERINTENDENT AND ENGINEER AND THEIR SALARIES; OF 
THE SECOND COMMISSION. 


Commissioner Samuel C. Taber was SDPO a clerk and assistant 
treasurer June 28, 1872, at a salary of $200 per month, dating from 
May 30th. He continued to act and draw pay as such until the 20th 
day of June, 1873. 

J. Nelson Tubbs, of Rochester, was appointed superintendent and 
engineer June 28, 1872. On motion of Commissioner Taber his salary 
was fixed at $2,500 per annum. August 21 his salary was increased 
to $3,000 per annum, to date back to July 1. He drew pay as such 
until the 1st day of June, 1873. 

The chairman of the commission was authorized, at the same meet- 
ing, to appoint one or more inspectors of masonry at $5 perday. Sub- 
sequently the chairman appointed George Swain and Nathan Baker, 
of Elmira, such inspectors. 


EXPENSES OF THE FIRST COMMISSION. 


Personal and traveling expenses of commissioners..... : $2,616 72 
Mrs eee RTI OUI ern ech SA ret Sea wis WS Lod 2,215 89 
Rent of office, gas, etc..... Peers erieye matte: A> Ab cise 338 58 
NOEs ESTER: OUC  SeS c cc hain at eae ee eee 1,258 33 
Printing, stationery and postage ..................... 980 28 
Superintendent and engineer ............-... cee eeee 3,305 42 
Miscellaneous ........ Pr aegis. Suave. Weraie fe Woke 470 63 

veh oe Mere ie WES he et. Ses See Peel $11,185 85 

EXPENSES OF SECOND COMMISSION. 

Personal and traveling expenses of commissioners...... $603 32 
Furnishing office ..... fhe Cee eh i ae as os Se BAe pe 57 67 
Rent of office, BRAS EUGLS chia Sets Bitola OA HO Non eta 454 96 
SHEP RU ASIP GUS. SUL o vae Sots. se poeta aerate * 2,673 60 


PRET IC TORWATUL. See chet fl SARE cee ars CORE: $3,789 55 


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Brovght forwards cea. carte he ar te ete $3,789 5b 
Printing, stationery and postage ........ LAAN SS Fics he 652 69 
Superintendent and engineering..." «te awidete de ewan ie 3,045 00 
Miscellaneous 02). 2 ¥ig,) sump ae st sot a art ae ees 488 87 

AWE para ee el \ ore yo Lt erichs Ss arg aioe Se Figs eae Ree $7,976 11 


PLANS FOR REFORMATORY. 


The first commission, immediately upon their organization, pro- 
ceeded to make examination of prisons at Boston, Charlestown and 
New York, for the purpose of gaining information to aid them in 
adopting plans for the proposed reformatory buildings. 

The reformatory was not to be a place constructed solely for the 
incarceration of individuals convicted of crime, but the humane work 
of reclamation of the less hardened criminal, according to modern 
ideas of prison discipline was to have a trial so far as practicable; and, 
in adopting plans, it was necessary to provide the means for gr adation 
and separation among the convicts. 

At a meeting held in New York June 24, 1870, Commissioner Pils- 
bury was authorized and requested to superintend the preparation of 
preliminary plans for the reformatory. 

G. J. F.. Bryant, architect, was e: mployed to draught preliminary 
plans embodying Commissioner Pils! oury’s ideas with “reference to the 
subject-matter to be submitted to the commission at their next meet- 
ing. Such meeting was held and plans submitted at the penitentiary 
in Albany, August. 24, and after a consideration of the same, and the 
ideas necessary to be embodied in the plans that finally should be 
adopted, it was determined to offer the following premiums to archi- 
tects who might desire to present plans for the reformatory, viz.: A 
premium of $3 500, $400, $300 and $200 to the authors of plans respect- 
ively, that should be submitted to the commission on or before Sep- 
tember 28, 1870, and by them awarded the first, second, third and 
fourth place, according to their respective merit. 

At a meeting held at the same place, September 28, plans were sab- 
mitted by architects as follows: Messrs. Woollett & Ogden, Albany, 
N. Y.; Messrs. Bryant and Rodgers, Boston, Mass.; Mr. J.B. Thomas, 
Rochester, N. Y.; Mr. A. J. Warner, Rochester, ING Ve 

The approximate estimate of cost accompanying Woollett & Ogden’s 
plans, was $680,000. This estimate related solely to the buildings and 
yard wall. ; 

The plans, as presented, did not contain the pavilions at the extremity 
of the corridors, in one of which is located a dining-room, and in the 
other a block of cells marked “9.” (See plan hereto annexed.) 

A full explanation was made by the architects of their respective 
plans, and a consideration of the same had by the commissioners and 
several gentlemen informed in prison matters present by invitation. 

It was suggested in such discussion, that there should be a dining- 
room for convicts confined in block of cells “ D,” separate from the 
other convicts, as the most hopeful grade of criminals were to be con- 
fined therein, and the architects, Woollett & Ogden, were requested to 
add the pavilion at the western extremity of the north wing aforesaid 
to their plan to furnish the room for such accommodation, and secure 
a proper balance of the building; the southern wing was extended the 


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same distance and treated externally as a pavilion, and was to be the 
residence of the deputy warden, but subsequently, after the approval 
by the governor, it was determined to erect. solitary cells therein. 

After much discussion, it was decided not to determine upon the 
plans until the next meeting of the commission, which occurred Janu- 
ary 24,1871, at the same place, at which time the plans were further 
considered, and on the following day the plans presented by Woollett 
& Ogden, as extended in the particular before mentioned, were 
adopted by the commission, thereby awarding them the first premium 
and also awarding to Bryant & Rogers the second; J. R. Thomas the 
third, and A. J. Warner the fourth. 

On the same day, the plans adopted as aforesaid, were approved by 
the governor, comptroller and state engineer, as required by law. 

The building for which the plans were thus adopted and approved 
will be in size, as follows: 

The principal or eastern front, 508 feet 8 inches, and the wings on 
north and south, 241 feet 8 inches, respectively. 

The offices for the managers and residence for warden occupy the 
center of the principal front and in advance of it, and are seventy feet 
and eight inches by eighty feet and eight inches, and consist of sub- 
cellar, basement, principal, second and attic stories. The plan of the 
building and the arrangement of the cells provides for the classification 
of prisoners, as follows: A block of cells thirty-two in number, denomi- 
‘nated “Solitaries,’” marked “8S” on the annexed plan. Division “ A” 
contains 104 cells; division “ B” contains 176 cells; division “ C” con- 
tains 136 cells, and division “ D” contains 56 cells. The total number 
of cells 504. 

The solitary cells are eight feet square on the floor and nine feet 
high ; the cells of division “ A” and “ B” are five feet by eight feet on 
the floor and nine feet high; the cells of division “C” are seven feet 
by eight feet on the floor and nine feet high; the cells of division “ D” 
are eight feet by ten feet on the floor and nine feet high. 

Each block of cells is four stories high, and the corridors surround- 
ing them are one story, equal in height to the four stories of cells. 
Attached to the division “D” are a kitchen, reading-rooms, dining- 
rooms and lecture-room. 

The center part of the building is appropriated to kitchen, guard- 
room and chapel. The other rooms and apartments required, are 
located in the pavilions on the corners of the edifice, with the excep- 
tion of the laundry and boiler-house, which it is proposed to provide 
for in a seperate building in the yard. 

The superstructure was to be built of brick trimmed with cut stone. 

The window frames to be of wood; the building to be covered with 
a Mansard roof. 


CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE SINCE THE APPROVAL OF PLANS BY 
THE GOVERNOR, COMPTROLLER AND STATE ENGINEER — CHANGES OF 
MATERIAL IN EXTERIOR WALLS OF SUPERSTRUCTURE. 


At a meeting of the commission November 10, 1871, the architects 
recommended that the exterior walls of the reformatory be faced up 
with stone laid in irregular block-work rock-face, with the beds and 
joints cut, and that the trimmings, such as arches, base belts and 


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water-tables, be of the same kind of stone as that which may hereafter 
be adopted for the block-work, and that the same be “ chisel-dressed.” 

Such recommendations were adopted at the same meeting, 

The additional expenses incurred by such change was estimated at 
$25,000, but such estimate was based on sixty cents per superficial foot, 
wnd the work was constructed at eighty-five cents per foot, and hence 
the expense will be greater than first estimated. 


CHANGES. IN WINDOW FRAMES FROM WOOD TO IRON. 


By the plans originally adopted, the window frames were to be of 
wood. ‘lhe commission made a change to iron November 10, 1871. 


FIRE-PROOF FLOORS, ETC. 


The substitution of fire-proof floors with wrought-iron beams and 
brick arches instead of wood in guard-room part of the building, the 
corridors and pavilions, was determined upon November 10, 1871. 
Such changes were recommended by the architects. Another change 
of less importance was the substitution of pressed brick for ordinary 
brick, in facing the walls of the cells. 

See report of architect-in-chief in appendix “ A,” hereto annexed, 
with reference to the foregoing changes, etc. 


ARCHITECTS. 


At a meeting of the commissioners in Albany, February 28, 1871, 
William L. Woollett, of Albany, was appointed architect-in-chief, and 
A. J. Warner, supervising architect, and a contract was duly entered 
into with them, specifying their duties and giving them jointly, as 
compensation, three per cent on total cost of reformatory building and 
works, in which percentage they share alike. 

See contract hereto annexed, appendix “ B.” 

It was expected by Mr. Woollett when his plans were adopted, that 
he would be appointed the sole architect; but there seemed to be a 
strong influence in the commission for Mr. Warner, who had been 
awarded the fourth premium on plans, and the circumstances sur- 
rounding Mr. Woollett seemed to compel him to make the arrange- 
ments with Mr. Warner, above mentioned, in order to secure the posi- 
tion of architect-in-chief. 

- Amount paid architects for competition plans is $1,400; amount 
paid Byrant, for preliminary drawings, is $630; total, $2,030. 


RESERVOIR, 


We find no record, in the minutes of the commission, of a meeting 
whereat the subject of the reservoir, or the propriety of their building 
the same, was under discussion, except by inference, that the matter 
was considered at the meeting held at Albany, September 28, 18'70, 
when the architects presented their premium plans, from the fact that 
Commissioners Miller, Arnot and Atkinson were then appointed an 
executive committee to have immediate charge of the work of con- 
structing a reservoir and conducting the water to the site of the 
reformatory. ! 


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LOCATION. 


The reservoir is located on grounds belonging to the reformatory 
lands, about one-half mile west of the building, and when filled the 
water covers about five acres of land, and the surface of the water is 
one hundred and fifty feet above the grade line of the building site. 
The supply of water will be abundant for the use of the reformatory. 


DAM. 


The dam is built across a ravine, and is 620 feet long on the top 
ard 14 feet wide. The greatest height of dam at lowest place in ravine 
is about 33 feet, and the greatest width on base, about 143 feet. The 
slope banks on lower side 1-9 to 1, and upper side, 2 to 1. Total num- 
ber cubic yards of material in same. is about 28,000 yards. 


WORK UPON RESERVOIR. 


Work upon the reservoir was commenced late in the fall of 1870, and 
continued into winter, and was completed in June, 1871. The work 
on the dam commenced November 5th. The dam is strongly con- 
structed and well done, except that the masonry bears evidence of 
having been laid in weather when the mortar used would freeze, and 
by reason thereof the walls were not made entirely water-tight. 

My. C. A. Beach was the engineer upon the reservoir, and the same 
was constructed by day-work, the time consumed being largely in the 
shortest days in the year. 

The total cost of the reservoir is reported, by the commission build- 
ing the same, at $34,165.74. 

From a careful, detailed estimate made by our engineer, Mr. Butter- 
field, of amounts from actual measurements, where practicable, and 
from the notes of the engineer in charge of building the same, whose 
measurements are now impracticable, and affixing liberal prices to the 
several items of work and material — prices at which the work could 
have been let at contract and given a liberal profit to the contractor — 
we believe that the cost of building the reservoir complete should not 
have exceeded the sum of $25,000. See detailed statement hereto an- 
nexed, appendix “A.” 


GRADING OF REFORMATORY GROUNDS AND EXCAVATIONS FOR FOUN- 
DATION WALLS, SEWERS, DRAINS, ETC. 


The site of the reformatory building is located upon elevated 
ground, and it required much grading to level the same and bring it 
to the grade line adopted for the building. Such grading was com- 
menced June 1, 1871, and the material excavated was deposited on 
other parts of the grounds, where necessary to level and grade the 
same. ‘The same was completed about August 1 of the same year. 


EXAMINATION FOR STONE. 


Located a short distance west of the site of the building is a hill, 
which was thought, at the time of the locating of the reformatory 
grounds, to contain stone suitable for building purposes. 

In May, 1871, an excavation was begun for the purpose of ascertain- 
ing whether stone could be found there, suitable for the purposes 
required, and continued until late in the summer of that same year, 


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before the work was entirely abandoned and the hope of finding good 
building stone wholly given up. 

The stone proved to De of a ver y inferior quality and speedily slacked 
on being exposed to the air. 

The material taken out was used in chew? the grounds in the rear 
of the site of the building. 


TRENCHES. 


The work of excavating the trenches for the foundations of the exte- 
rior walls of the building was commenced about August 1, 1871, and 
were in readiness to receive the concrete about September 1, following. 

Excavations were also made the same season for a sewer for some 
distance through the grounds; also blind ditches for concentrating the 
water that came from the hill back of the site of the building. 

In 1872, excavations were made for the foundation of the greater 
part of the yard wall. Pits were also excavated for the foundations 
of blocks of cells S, A, Band C. Excavations were made for sewers 
and ditches. Roadways were constructed, and the grading of the 
whole grounds inside of the yard wall quite fully completed. 


TOTAL AMOUNT DONE. 


Mr. Butterfield has made, under the direction of the commission, a 
careful and detailed measurement of all the grading and excavation 
done upon the reformatory grounds, exclusive of the reservoir, up to 
the time your commission took charge of the work, including the 
search for stone, and the sewer from the grounds to the Chemung 
canal. 

In such measurement, the amounts of the several kinds of grading 
and excavations have been made up separately. The same has been 
done from actual measurements, with the aid of original notes and 
cross sections in his possession, made by the engineer in charge before 
th: work of grading was begun. 

We find the total number of cubic yards to be 107,400. 


KIND OF MATERIAL MOVED. 


No part of the work was in rock except in the excavations made in 
the search for stone, which rock was mostly soft slate. The earth 
moved was. common earth, except in trenches, excavation for guard- 
room, cells, and some of the sewers, and the site of the building itself, 
some portions of which was indurated earth. 


HOW WORK WAS DONE. 


All of the grading, excavating, building of sewers, ditches, etc., was 
done by laborers and teams hired by the commission ; no part of the 

same having been done by contract. 

On the 2ist of June, 1871, the following resolution was offered in 
the commission by Commissioner Arnot, and received but one vote in 
its favor: 

“ Resolved, That the work now in progr ess in the grading of the north 
half of the reformatory site be continued, and that a sufficient force 
of men be employed to complete the same as soon as possible; and 
that the superintendent and engineer be and he is hereby directed to 


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make an accurate measurement of the number of cubic yards con- 
tained in the balance of the grading and foundation trenches, in order 
that the work may be advertised to be completed by contract.” 

We have no doubt but that a very large percentage of what the 
work tinally cost would have been saved to the state, had the work 
been done by contract, advertised and let to the lowest bidder. 


ACTUAL COST OF THIS WORK. 


‘The commission kept no separate account of the cost of this work, 
and the only manner in which we have been able to ascertain the same 
has been by a complete and careful examination of their books and 
vouchers, and ascertaining therefrom the total amount expended by 
the commission for all other purposes up to the time we assumed con- 
trol, and subtracting that sum from the total sum expended, we find 
the total cost of the grading and excavation aforesaid to be the sum 
of $100,450.50, except that, in that account, is included the value of 
the labor of building 493 rods of common post and board fence, the 
labor of putting under foundation walls 662 cubic yards of concrete, 
labor of laying all sewers and drains upon the grounds or leading 
therefrom, erecting a temporary building for office at the grounds, a 
shed to receive the iron, and a blacksmith shop. 


WHAT THE WORK SHOULD HAVE COST. 


From a careful examination of the grounds and material moved, 
and from the detailed statement of the several amounts of work done, 
made by Engineer Butterfield, we have made a careful estimate of 
what the work should have cost. 

In such estimate we have given prices at which the work could, we 
believe, have been let at contract, and left a liberal margin for profit 
to the contractor. We find that all the work of grading and excava- 
tion, ete., should not have exceeded, in the judgment of your com- 
mission, the sum of $62,500. (See detailed statement of amounts and 
estimates hereto annexed, appendix “ A.” 

‘This difference may not be greater than is usual between doing pub- 
lic work by day’s work and by contract. It shows, however, the econ- 
omy of doing public work by contract when it is practicable. 


CONTRACTS. 
Contract for Foundation Walls. 


The first contract made by the commission other than with the 
architects, was August 31, 1871, with John Kiley, of Rochester, after 
duly advertising for proposals for the work, he being the lowest bidder. 

By the terms of the contract with him, he was to furnish all mate- 
rial and perform all the labor necessary to construct and finish, in 
every respect, in the most substantial and workmanlike manner, the 
foundation walls of the state reformatory according to the specifica- 
tions to the contract annexed. 

He was to receive in full compensation therefor, $6 per cubic yard 
for rubble masonry laid in hydraulic cement. (See contract in full 
annexed.) 

The work was to be completed by November 20th, same year, but 
was not in fact completed until in May following. 


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The final estimate of work under this contract, made by Mr. Bishop, 
superintendent and engineer, bears date June Ist, 1872, and, as pre- 
sented to the commission, was as follows: 


2517 68-100 cubic yards rubble masonry, $6........... $15,106 08 


Extra work not included in contract : 
670 80-100 cubic yards masonry faced and pointed, $10.. 6,708 00 
189 38-100 cubic yards coping on foundation walls, $12, 2,272 56 
2,029 34-100 square feet cut and bush hammered ma- 


BODY, © BaseO were ws c's vene eihie areein ee hee Neds 6 air meee 4,554 76 
Then follows several small items for labor in matter of 
making an opening through area walls, etc., amounting to, 68 75 
CD pitbeal is: ss sebentes wet obs up eed date arate) 20 Tote, etal: a eae he a $28,710 15 
Deduct previous: payments cc stescutwielsip ges te «lean 16,149 69 


$12,560 46 


Upon this estimate appears the indorsement following: 

“ By direction of the comptroller, and with the consent of the con- 
tractor, the final estimate on foundation walls was. so altered and 
amended, as to show the amount, due thereon to be $10,000.” 

(Signed.) S. C. TABER, Sec’y, 


The estimate as amended and paid is the same as above, except that 
the number of cubic yards rubble masonry is 3,208 94-100, and no item 
of masonry faced and pointed is mentioned, and instead of reading, 
“extra work,” etc., it is changed to read, “ work which by specifications 
was included in contract, but for which no prices were fixed.” 

This final estimate was paid and receipted in full by contractor, July 
27,1872; the total amount paid under the contract was $26,149.71. 


REMARKS. 


From an examination of the contract and specifications under which 
this work was done, it appears clearly in the judgment of your 
commission that all the work mentioned in the foregoing final esti- 
mate, except the item of $68.75, was included in the contract, and was 
all to be fully completed at the price of $6 per cubic yard for the rub- 
ble masonry. 

The practice of so construing a contract as to make the price to be 
paid to apply to but about half the work should not be tolerated. 

See contract and specifications in appendix “ B.” 


YARD WALL. 


The next contract made by the commissioners was with John Kiley - 
for building yard wall, dated November 11, 1871. 

This wall is to inclose the prison yard, about thirteen acres, and is 
twenty-five feet high, with an average thickness of three feet and eight 
inches, and capped with stone five feet in width. 


No. 22.] 13 


LETTING CONTRACT. 


At a meeting held November 10, 1872, a resolution was adopted, on 
motion of Mr. Warren, as follows: 

“ Resolved, That the architects be and they are hereby requested to 
report to this board their opinion in regard to the propriety of com- 
mencing the work of constructing the prison yard wall of the reform- 
atory, and what, in their judgment, would be a fair price per cubic 
yard for the wall without the coping, and also for the whole complete.” 

A recess of two hours was then taken to enable the architects to 
complete the report asked for by the foregoing resolution. Upon 
re-assembling, the architects reported, among other things: 

“We would advise, first, that the prison yard-wall be contracted for, 
in order that the material may be delivered upon the ground while the 
roads are in good condition. The plans of said prison wall are here- 
with submitted.” 

Immediately thereafter a second report is made, as follows: 

“We, the undersigned, herewith submit what in our opinion would 
be a fair and reasonable price for the construction of the reformatory 
yard wall, viz. : 

“For the wall below grade, $8 per cubic yard; for the wall above 
ae $12 per cubic yard; for the coping 75 cents per superficial foot, 

ressed and set. 
(Signed) “WILLIAM L. WOOLLETT, 
“A. J. WARNER, 
“ Architects.” 


Thereupon, on motion of Commissioner Miller, the executive com- 
mittee were authorized and directed to make a supplementary contract 
with John Kiley for the construction of the reformatory yard wall, in 
accordance with the plans and specifications submitted by the archi- 
tects, at a price not exceeding $10 per cubic yard, Commissioner 
Atkinson voting in the negative. 

The contract. was made on the following day. By its terms Kiley 
was to furnish all material and to perform all the labor necessary to 
construct and finish, in every respect in the most substantial and work- 
manlike manner, the yard walls of the State Reformatory, according 
to the specifications annexed to the contract. 

The specifications state that the cut stone for the gateways, the 
door-sills and lintels, for the loops or windows in the watch-towers, 
hooks, blocks, ete., that may be required for the doorways, etc., will be 
the subject of another contract, but all such cut stone shall be set by 
the contracting mason, and in case the work is let by the foot or yard, 
said cut stone shall be measured in the rubble wall. 

He is to receive in full compensation for the materials and work for 
rubble masonry, laid in hydraulic and quick-lime, at the rate of $10 
per cubic yard ; for coping and water-table, at the rate of 75 cents per 
superficial foot. Monthly estimates to be made and paid, less 15 per 
cent reserved until completion of work. 


AMOUNT OF WORK DONE. 


There was completed of this work when the present commission 
assumed control, 3,410 cubic yards of the foundation, and 2,222 cubie 
yards of the superstructure, amounting in all to 5,632 cubic yards. 


14 [SENATE, 


There was laid of the coping 476 45-100 superficial feet, and of the 
water-table 771 superficial feet. This work was completed prior to 
January 1, 1873. 


MATERIALS ON HAND. 


There is a large amount of materials on the ground for the yard 
wall. The same lie scattered upon the ground in the vicinity of the 
line of the wall} as thrown from the wagons when delivered, and an 
accurate measurement of the same is impossible. 

The last estimate of material, made by the last commission and paid, 
was March 1, 1873, and showed 6,900 cubic yards of stone, for the 
rnasonry, and 300 superficial feet of coping. 

Thereafter, other materials were delivered, and by the estimate made 
July 26, 1873, by our engineer, Mr. Butterfield, there appears to be 
7,500 cubic yards of stone on the ground for the yard wall: of which 
3,338 cubic yards are from the Corning quarry, and 4,170 cubic yards 
from the Latta Brook quarry; also, 551 superficial feet of coping. 


ACTUAL COST OF THE STONE. 


The actual cost of these stone to the contractor, delivered on the 
ground, does not exceed $4.50 per cubic yard. 

Those that come from Corning quarry are delivered under a contract, 
within less than a mile of the yard wall, at $3.50 per cubic yard. The 
only additional expense to the contractor is taking the same from the 
cars or canal-boats, and drawing them the distance above mentioned. 
The stone that come from Latta Brook are quarried by Lord & Dan- 
olds themselves, and hauled by their own teams or teams hired by them. 
The stone do not cost them, delivered, more than the Corning stone. 


ESTIMATES. 


Since the delivery of materials for the yard wall began in November, 
1871, up to March 1, 1873, estimates have been made, the beginning 
of each month, of the material then on hand, and for work completed 
in the wall up to the first of the month, by the superintendent and 
engineer in charge. 

The basis of such estimate has been, for each cubic yard of masonry 
completed, whether in foundation or superstructure, $10. 

For stone on hand, up to and including estimate of July 1, 1872, per 
cubic yard, $5. From and after that time to the last estimate made by 
Mr. Tubbs, the stone on hand were estimated at $6.50 per cubic yard. 

The estimate of July 1, 1872, shows 1,695 cubic yards completed, 
and 7,400 cubic yards stone on hand. 

The estimate for August 1st, following, shows 2,970 cubic yards com- 
pleted, and 5,200 yards stone on hand. While the completed work has 
increased only 1,275 cubic yards, the stone on hand has decreased 2,200 
cubic yards. Nevertheless, the contractors, by reason of the price 
being increased from $5 to $6.50 per cubic yard for stone on hand, 
receive an estimate of $7,800, less the 15 per cent reserved. 

It is evident that the expense of laying the foundation of this wall 
is much less than the last portions of the superstructure. In fact, the 
foundations are substantially the same in the masonry, according to the 
specifications, as the foundations of the main building, which the same 


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contractor built, under a contract awarded upon his own bid, at $6 per 
cubic yard. 

This may account for so large a portion of the work done being in 
the foundation, the entire foundation for the yard wall being com- 
pleted except for the distance of about 300 feet. 

By the last estimate made by Mr. Tubbs, and paid by the late com- 
mission, the same being up to March 1, 1873, we find the total amount 
paid the contractor under this contract, less the fifteen per cent, to be: 


Pr OMaeA NK TCOMD DISCO. serait. cio eaec ke Charny Patty 4 $57,407 00 
AU CMEPAUGLTE Le: OTT AITATIC vie tates Ain are ae hace aie a aie ave ela Gore 45,030 00 
Cals, CUCU ere mon eres renh ca een rnd, ey ont et at, 3 00 

$102,440 00 
MCU EMEP POL CONUS oy f pce eta ts ote che steloleter atechalale vee culctale 15,366 00 


$87,074 00 


PROFITS TO CONTRACTORS. 


It is evident from the foregoing facts, that the estimates under this 
contract have been made in the interest of the contractors, and espe- 
cially so under the administration of Mr. Tubbs as superintendent 
and engineer. 

The profit of at least two dollars per cubic yard, received upon the 
stone as delivered, less the fifteen per cent reserve, accounts for so great 
a quantity being kept on hand in advance of the work. 

The large profit to the contractor accruing in laying the foundations 
of this wall, and the lower portions thereof, account for the work upon 
the same being pushed so briskly, while the work upon the main build- 
ing was allowed to move at a slow pace. 

While it is usual to estimate material on hand, it is not usual to 
allow in such estimates any profit to the contractor. By doing so you 
lessen the inducement of the contractor to complete his work, and, in 
case of failure, subject the party for whom the work is performed, to 
permanent loss. If, however, the contractor in this case completes his 
work, all overestimates will be corrected on final estimate, and can, to 
some extent, be corrected in future estimates as the work progresses. 

Although the price for completing this work is regarded liberal, it is 
beheved best, under the circumstances, to compel the contractor to 
finish the work. 


CHARACTER OF WORK. , 


While the yard wall, so far as constructed, is probably sufficient to 
answer the purpose for which it was intended, it does not, in the 
opinion of this commission, conform to the specifications. 

‘The surface presents an exceedingly rough appearance, and the 
bonding appears quite defective. 

The stone known as Latta Brook stone have generally a flat surface, 
having good beds, and consequently making a strong wall, but the 
edges are rough, not easily brought to straight lines, so as to present a 
smooth face. 

In procuring the stone from Corning quarry, for the main building, 
there is left at the quarry a large amount not suitable for that work, 


16 [SENATE, 


and the contractor has been allowed to use such refuse in the yard 
wall. <A portion of the wall, made of this material, the commission 
think should be rebuilt, and more care should be required in the 
future when these stone are used. 

At a meeting of the commission held December 12, 1871, it was 
decided to publish forthwith a notice to contractors in various news- 
papers, inviting proposals, until December 21st, to furnish stone, brick 
and iron, as much as required of each for the construction of the State 
Reformatory, the proposals to be for the same in the work complete. 
For stone, the price per foot; for brick, the price per thousand, and: 
for iron, both wrought and cast, the price per pound. 

On the 21st the time for receiving proposals was further extended to 
December 28th at noon, at which time the proposals received were 
opened and examined, and thereupon a motion was made by Commis- 
sioner Atkinson to postpone further action upon the proposals by 
reason of the short time intervening before the legislature should con- 
vene, and that all appropriations therefor made would be entirely 
absorbed in carrying out contracts heretofore made, but such motion 
received but one affirmative vote, and on motion of Mr. Warren, the 
contract for stone and brick was awarded to George W. Aldridge, of 
Rochester, and the iron to George Worthington, of Owego, N. Y. 


THE ALDRIDGE CONTRAOT. 


By the terms of this contract, Mr. Aldridge agrees to furnish all the 
stone and brick work between the top of the foundation walls and the 
line of the cornice, including cells, required in building the superstruc- 
ture of the State Reformatory, according to drawings and plans 
exhibited on the day of letting, and specifications annexed to contract, 
and was to receive in full compensation therefor: For dimension stone 
cut and set in the wall $2.25 per superficial foot; for irregular block 
work cut and set in the wall, eighty-five cents per superficial foot, and 
for brick work laid and measured in the wall at twenty brick to the 
cubic foot, $13.50 per thousand. By the specifications, the face of the 
exterior walls were to be of cut stone, and were to be backed up solid 
with brick work. 

The delivery of materials under this contract began in January, 1872. 
Work upon the walls did not begin until the month of August follow- 
ing, and during that month there was only laid 308 superficial feet 
of stone and 4,000 brick. 


HOW MUCH COMPLETED. 


When the present commission assumed control, the south main walls 
between the foundation and water table was done and some of the 
water table laid; of the eastern front about 44 feet was completed 
to the same extent, and about 137 feet more had only the first 
course laid. The last estimate made by Mr. Tubbs, May 10, 1873, as 
recorded in engineer’s book, shows 3,680 superficial feet stone laid, and 
84,000 brick; some of the brick laid was in cells and wall between cor- 
ridor and pavilions, and 14,184 of the 84,000 were not laid, in fact, in 
the work covered by the Aldridge contract, but were laid in facing the 
inside walls of certain of the turrets of the yard wall, which, by the 
terms of the contract with Kiley for the erection of the yard wall, were 


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to be of stone; but a finer finish could be made by facing them with brick, 
with less expense to the state and more profit to the contractor, and 
the same was accordingly done and estimated in the Aldridge contract. 
Including this brick work, the whole amount of completed work 
under this contract at the date of the estimate aforesaid was $9,414. 


WORK NOT ACCORDING TO SPECIFICATIONS. 


By direction of Mr. Tubbs, the superintendent and engineer, the 
contractors, in building that portion of the exterior walls, did not back 
up solid with brick to the cut stone in the face, but filled in the center 
of the wall for an average width of about one foot and nine inches 
with what they termed rubble masonry. That portion of this work 
exposed to view was composed of spawls and broken stone and cement. 

The last estimate made by Mr. Tubbs shows 109 cubic yards of this 
work in the wall, and the estimate is placed in a contract which John 
Kiley had for constructing the foundation walls of the cells at $8 
per cubic yard. 

The expense to the state would have been seventy-one cents less 
per cubic yard if it had been backed up solid with brick than as it is 
built, and, in the judgment of your commission, the wall would have 
been better. It offered the contractor an opportunity to dispose of his 
refuse spawls and broken stone. 


AMOUNT PAID TO CONTRACTORS. 


There had been paid to the contractor, under this con- 
tract, when your commission assumed control, for work 
completed, including the brick laid in the turrets of 


Ber yarOcwallslesd 1) DOr {COM ves. ovis dele ew elas Sia $9,414 00 
HOmmMatertals ten ON “NANG se eee ale et ad eal fee eel 22,216 00 
$31,630 00 

SCO Lane et sare veem ecole: et eiae tee Kec OR MES BNE, 14 7% 
$31,615 25 

PIB GLM LS DeL OCN vad Uaus eet leh ues ae hua se eu es 4,742 28 
Beate LL y2 Pal CHO VELeLie sy inles @ Y's)h ce ale’ qiciy « hapa tint ea $26,872 97 


We believe the prices for completed work under this contract to be 
reasonable if the work be done in good faith, according to the speci- 
fications. Had the walls been built of brick, with stone trimming, as 
originally intended, the building would have been quite as good, and 
the cost much less; but as so much has been expended in work and 
material, it is manifestly the interest of the state to complete the 
front walls as commenced, while for the rear and interior, plain and 
substantial brick walls are recommended. 


WCRITHINGTON CONTRACT. 


By the terms of this contract the contractor agrees to furnish all the 
wrought and cast-iron work required for the reformatory building, up 
to the top of and including the cells, and to the underside of the out- 


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18 [SENATE, 


side cornice, including the balcony brackets, but excepting all: other 
balcony and stair-work. The work to be constructed according to the 
drawings and plans exhibited on the day of the letting. The specifica-. 
tions annexed to the contract and to receive in full compensation for 
the same. 

For rolled iron beams 124 inches high, all drilled for tie rods and 
anchors and fitted and set, six and one-half (64) cents per pound. 

For rolled iron beams nine (9 in.) inches high, all drilled for tie 
rods and anchors and fitted and set, six and one-half cents (64) per 
- pound. 

5 For cast-iron work, fitted and set, six (6) cents per pound. 

For wrought-iron work, fitted and set, eight (8) cents per pound. 

Delivery of iron at the grounds, under this contract, began in Feb- 
ruary, 1872. 

The first iron fitted and set in this work was in September, 1872. 


ESTIMATE. 


The estimate, as recorded in the engineer’s book, made September 1, 
1872, shows materials delivered and estimated under this contract: 


Contract Relative 


price. price. 
Ro9178 POUNCE CAsleITO go eee a sess 6 cents. 6 cents. $15,550 68 
43,065 « 6 SEO MOE 6 «& 5a « 2476 24 
8,881  “ “wrodght-ron' rt vA. Boat a 710 48 
154913 - wt = baauishiuctne, Aaives 5 Gb. fo) Ok 10,069 34. 
Potaloc. Aa dled: SH. es Bilal al oeet er be eee $28,806 74 


Which amount was paid the contractor, less the reserve percentage. 

It will be seen by the foregoing that all the materials except 43,065 
pounds of cast-iron was estimated and paid for the same as though 
~ fitted and set in the work complete, and only one-fourth (4) of a cent 
per pound was deducted from the item excepted as aforesaid. 

The last estimate made under the late commission was up to March 
1, 1873. Such estimate shows iron fitted and set in work complete, as 
follows: 


Spiess POURCS COSt-1TOD se am wes sakes oars at 6 cents $1,993 38 
PedAbDerin-— bere WIOUP GIL OM ivale a one woslain > chloe ets, Sat 171 60 
55,110 Sloman well faye Pea staysn sgt: Wome merge re SURO S pn at 64 “ 3,082 15 


otal. ot. cadbucats dine hook sailed aan $5,747 13 


MATERIALS ON HAND AT THE REFORMATORY GROUNDS. 
Con. price. Rel. price. 


253,300 pounds cast-iron ............ 6 cents. 6 cents. $15,198 00 
91,616 as SENS Me a niet ake eee it ge Gam. 5,267 92 

S204, © 6% etwroughi-irongs son s,s Bare Site." Oe 660 32 
10555 Aes 23 SS Oe eke Wt 791 70 
99,803 “0 “rolled beatae: vic cn. ae 64“ 64 6,487 19 


Notalayt raoiamaotes cht agi ori Side One $28,405 13. 


No. 22.] 19 


Materials estimated, but at Owego under a temporary shed, 
145,066 pounds cast-iron, contract price 6 cents, rela- 


tive Tact eae CONUS gat. bfe a tcea miarafes chads ols ifets elaiafesk ee $7,615 96 
Total amount estimated se ferret tel See, $41,768 22 

LO. pence eR peniie Ene lg ana ails Rabel aii Pierre eta ei iia oi oe 68 22 
$41,700 00 

TiGRGiv eg DOLCONLALS .< 215 caisiene «score wlnaWbierty aaa BSI 6,255 00 


Amount actually paid contractor............e+0e. $35,445 00 


And of that sum only $4,885.07 was for iron fitted and set in the 
work complete. 

The departing from the contract, by estimating material before 
delivered on the reformatory grounds, was at the request of Mr. Whee- 
ler H. Bristol, who is performing this contract. It appears by records 
of the commission that the iron estimated at Owego was placed in the 
custody of Commissioner Miller, who resided at that place. 

In the estimates for material, a sufficient margin was not allowed for 
fitting and setting the iron in the work complete. 

The cast-iron work furnished by the contractor has been at least 
forty per cent heavier than the specifications called for, and that much 
heavier than the necessity of the work demands. Why the engineer in 
charge and commissioners have sanctioned this increase in cost, without 
advantage therefrom to the state, is unexplained. 

The contract prices aforesaid for this work, as the price of iron has 
ranged since the contract was made, are reasonable for the state, if the 
contract be faithfully executed on the part of the contractor. 

See Contract and Specifications, appendix “ B.” 


CONTRACT FOR FOUNDATION OF CELLS. 


On the 30th day of July, 1872, another contract was made rath John 
Kiley, without a public letting, whereby said Kiley agreed to furnish 
all the material and perform all the labor necessary fo construct and 
finish, in every respect, the masonry underneath, and for the founda- 
tions of the cells, and also all other foundation walls, under partition 
walls, in the corridors. The construction of the same to be in all 
respects according to the specifications annexed to contract, and the 
directions of the engineerin charge. ‘The contract stating that it was 
supplementary to the contract of August 31, 1871, and of November 
11, 1871, he was to receive in full compensation ($8) eight dollars hs 
cubic yard for rubble masonry laid in hydraulic mortar. 

The character of the work performed under this contract was of a 
quality inferior to, and far less expensive than, the work in the foun- 
dation walls of the main building, constructed by the same contractor 
at six ($6) dollars per cubic yard. 

The last estimate made by the late commission, under this contract, 
was up to December, 1872, and was as follows: 


20 [SENATE, 


2,044 cubic yards rubble masonry, in cement, at $8..... $16,352 00 
300 cubic yards stone, for masonry, at $5 ............ 1,500 00 
" $17,852 00 

PC CENT Se ea pet sphere o auat Ru tetany fel tteta atoms EE Po ee ee 8 00 
Wah ase $17,860 00 

Deduct 15 -per-cenvers Poke fe aay: wake a aes sees ae eee 2,679 00 
Amount actually paid contractor... ........ 20 eee. $15,181 00 


Of the 2,044 cubic yards above mentioned, 109 cubic yards of the 
same were for the rubble masonry filling, in the center of the exterior 
walls of the superstructure, which was estimated as though done under 
this contract. The expense thereof should be deducted from the 
amount above and added to the amount paid on account of the super- 
structure. 


1OScubiGrvards; ab S87... 25 se sree ee a ei met ee ene $872 00 
OD POL COUL TESCTNEU os's:e gees eeu, ate ee apcins eee Phare Ger eee 130 80 
Deduct same from amount above... «ss cs coc cede $741 20 


Amount actually paid for work under this contract, at 
the time the present commissioners assumed control... $14,439 80 


See Contract and Specifications, appendix “ B.” 


CONTRACT FOR CUT STONE IN TURRETS, DOORWAYS, ETC., IN YARD 
WALL. . 


On the 30th day of July, 1872, a supplementary contract was made 
with George W. Aldridge, whereby he agreed to furnish all the material 
and perform all the labor, and finish in every respect according to the 
specifications to the contract annexed, and deliver ready to be laid in 
the work, the cut dimension stone required for the gateways, and for 
the jams, sills and lintels for the loops on windows in the upper sec- 
tions of the watch-towers connected with the yard wall. Also for the 
steps, sills, jams and lintels for the doorways into the lower part of the 
turrets leading from the yard. For which he was to receive $2 per 
superficial foot. 

There has been cut, delivered and placed in the work under this 
contract— 


240) SUPEFliclal Jeeb, $2 24.4.4 sw aise Sadana tii Wika ede $480 00 
70 superficial feet cut and delivered, $2............... 140 00 
Totalamoun tinder Contract ..<-rics <pmcienve coke nem $620 00 
Deduct 1) per (Cen buare “alwine Meas sin ob aoe ee 93 00 
Amount actually paid contractor..............e0. $527 00 


This item wants to be added to the cost of the yard wall. 
This work was done prior to December Ist, 1872. 
See Contract and Specifications in appendix “B.” 


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FLAGGING STONE CONTRACT. 


On the 27th day of August, 1872, still another contract was made 
with said George W. Aldridge, whereby said Aldridge agreed to furnish, 
cut and set complete, all of the flagging stones required for the reform- 
atory according to the plans therefor, and the specifications annexed to 
the contract. The work to progress as the commissioners, superin- 
tendent and engineer should direct. For which said Aldridge was to 
receive for all the flagging stones for the cells, cut and set in the work 
complete, one dollar and fifty ($1.50) cents per superficial foot; and 
for the remainder of the flagging for the corridors, kitchens, and all 
others that may be required, when cut and set in the work complete, 
eighty-five (85) cents per superficial foot. 

The meeting of the commissioners at which this contract was au- 
thorized was held the same day the contract bears date (August 27th, 
1872). 

iMore must have been rapid work under this contract, for, from the 
engineer’s record, there was estimated to this contractor September 1st, 
four days from date of contract, $2,460 of material made under this 
contract. 

The last estimate under the commission was to March Ist, 1873, and 
was as follows: 


3,940 superficial feet flagging in work, $1.50........... $5,910 00 
MATERIALS DELIVERED. 

8,460 superficial feet flagging for cells, $1.25........... 10,575 00 
340 superficial feet flagging for walks, 60c............. 204 00 
$16,689 00 

BC eer alse creak thee oe ai aisi ial sy aha e/a slatsig so4 siwehd 9 00 
$16,680 00 

rece ORDELS COLL te ates: tora eran cixpuxass Unis sue nians ehuaiois <'s B's 2,502 00 
Amount actually paid contractors................ $14,178 00 


Of this sum only $5,023.50 was for completed work. 

The foregoing are all the contracts relative to the erection of the 
reformatory that your commission found in existence and executed by 
both parties, when they assumed control, but there is still another 
contract signed by the contractor, George W. Aldridge, but not signed 
by the commission, but under which they had made estimates and paid 
to the samé extent as if executed on their part. 


CONTRACT FOR PRESSED BRICK AND CUTTING STONE CORNICE ON 
YARD WALL. 


This contract bears date December 3, 1872, and by its terms, Mr, 
Aldridge agrees to furnish and set in the work all the pressed brick 
which may be required for facing the walls of the cells. Also to do 
the cutting and dressing required on the stone cornice projection, 
under the coping stone of the yard wall, for which he was to receive 
in full compensation, for pressed brick furnished and laid in the work, 
thirty ($30) dollars per thousand. 


22 [Suware, 


For cutting the stone cornice projection, under coping on yard wall, 
at the rate of ($2) two dollars per superficial foot, measuring only 
that portion which is visible after being laid in the wall. 

The last estimate made and paid, under this contract, was up to 
January 1, 1873, and was as follows: 


5,000 preserved brick, in work, at $30............0.0.008 $150 00 
600.superficial feet, belting) abs $2. oss. see Sous ol ale's 1,200 00 
MATERIALS ON HAND. 

35,000 pressed brick, for facing cells, at $20.............. 700 00 

$2,050 00 

TT oe cite eeahute Urs Peete isle eicnica (elias peteha ace ieonrainiaie cite amnenaee 10 00 
Totalamonnt estimated ss. .ui-aicnts eat ick bee eee $2,040. 00 
HOAUCKALT WereCOUUs seus + (owas usretaus' we Biever ieeeieels aks lesa eae 306 00 
Total‘amount paid to contractors... . 0s... sees $1,734 00 


Of this amount $1,011.50 was on account of cutting the cornice 
projections aforesaid on the yard wall. It will be observed that the 
contractor receives’ the ($2) two dollars per superficial foot simply for 
cutting and dressing the stone. He does not furnish the stone or set 
the same in the wall. The same is laid by the builder of the wall, and 
measured to him as rubble masonry. 

This work is clearly covered by the original contract with Kiley, for 
the erection of the yard wall. The attention of the contractor being 
expressly called, in specification, to this cornice projection, and manner 
of its construction. 

See Contract and Specifications in appendix “ B.” | 


SWITCH OR SIDE TRACK. 


The second commission, in the summer of 1872, rented, for a term 
of years, a strip of land along a portion of the highway leading from 
the Erie railway track to the reformatory grounds, and caused a switch 
track to be constructed thereon. 

They paid the Hrie Railway Co., for constructing the same, the sum 
of $400.25; and Richmond Jones, the owner of the land, $100, for 
one year’s rent of same. Your commission cannot see that such 
expenditure was of any service to the commission, or benefit to the 
state. It was used by the commission only in unloading the sewer 
pipe for the sewer, from the grounds to the Chemung canal, but the 
switch side track was of great service to the contractors, and was 
used by them exclusively, except in the instance above mentioned. We 
regard the above as a useless expenditure of money, so far as the 
interests of the state are concerned. 


WHO ARE THE REAL CONTRACTORS. 


Although the contract for the iron work is in the name of George 
Worthington, the real contractor therefor is Wheeler H. Bristol, of 
Owego, who is and has been from the outset performing the contract. 


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The contracts aforesaid, in the name of John Kiley, and those in the 
name of George W. Aldridge, have all been duly transferred to George 
D. Lord and Charles A. Danolds, of Rochester, who have been from 
the beginning and now are performing all the contracts jointly relating 
to the ‘building of the reformatory, except the iron contract aforesaid. 


STONE QUARRIES. 


The stone for the superstructure of the reformatory comes from the 
Corning stone quarries, and a portion of the stone for the yard wall. 

The remainder of the stone comes from the Latta Brook quarry, 
situate about three miles from the reformatory grounds. ‘The latter 
quarry is owned by George McCann, and by him rented to Lord & 
Danolds, they paying him sixteen cents per cubic yard for all stones 
taken therefrom. 

The Corning stone are owned by three different parties, John Heer- 
mans, Benjamin N. Payne, and Mrs. George Barned, each of whom 
rented his quarry to Alonzo H. Gorton, of Corning , who has a verbal 
contract only, as he states, with the contractors, Lord & Danolds, to 
furnish all the stone required for the reformatory, delivered on the 
ears or canal-boats opposite and at a point about three-quarters of a 
mile from the reformatory grounds, at the following prices: 

For stone for rubble masonry, $3.50 per eubic yard. 

For dimension stone, $10.50 per cubic yard, and for broken ashler, 
$7.50 per cubic yard. 


Recapiiulation of Estimates made and Amounts paid upon building and 
yard wall prior to present Commission assuming control. 


Amount estimated to con- Amount 
tractor. Reserved| actually 
CONTRACTORS. | Work and where done. |____sCsSCSCSCSCSCSSSSS_| percent -| paid to 
Comple-|Material| Total | 43° peed G 
ted work|on hand.|amount. pts 
John Kiley...... Foundation main build’g/$26,149 69] ........ $26,149 69} ... 1.0. $26,149 69 
John Kiley..... Foundation of cells......| 15,480 00} $1,500 00} 16,988 00) $2,545 20] 14,489 80 
G. W. Aldridge. |Superstructure.. ........ 9,222 52) 22,216 00) 31,423 77| 4.713 57} 26,710 21 
John Kiley . .|Rubble filling in of the 
DVALDG Wallen ete cele ae BIZ 00l" a Puscices 872 00 130 80 741 20 
Gawe Aldridge, |Plarging so. 6s. scan. one 5,910 00; 10,779 00) 16,680 00; 2,502 00) 14,178 00 
G. W. Aldridge.|Pressed brick............. 150 00 700 00} 850 00 127 50 722 50 


G. Worthington TO nn eee A ee pesca ite oes 5,747 13} 36,021 09| 41,700 00; 6,255 00} 35,445 00 


Total estimates and pay- 
ments on main build’g.|$63,531 34/$71,216 09) 134,663 46'$16,277 07| 118,386 40 


John Kiley::..: Yard walle. evssseo-s: $57,407 90|$45,030 00| 102,440 00/$15,366 00/887,074 00 
i rick in turrets of yar 

G. W. Aldridge. AL eeeeereereree terete 491.40) es: 191 48) 287i} 162% 
in stone in watc Ow- 

G. W. Aldridge.” ors yard wall........... 480 00] 140 00/ 620 00/ 93.00] 527 00 


Cutting stone for cornice 
G. W. Aldridge.| projection under gpn3 


he Vvard Wallic.c..- ce. 518 00 682 00; 1,190 00 178 50 


$15,666 21 


1,011 50 


$88,775 27 


$58,596 48) $45, 852 00| 104,441 48) 


CODED oi. Ces ncle oe. ne 122,127 Secs 09] 239,104 alo eee 67 


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Recapitutation of total expenditures wp to the tume the present commis- 
sion assumed control: 


There was expended for land for the reformatory grounds, 

COMBISELNY OL ADOUE MOUTACTES tetes|s ston cum Ce eee $38,052 00 
First commission for personal, traveling and 

office expenses, salary of superintendent 


and engineer and miscellaneous........ $11,185 85 
Second commission for same purpose..... 7,976 11 

| —————__ 19,161 96 
TOM: \TESCVVOUM Bese! « sh4ie's bibl Faye cle hts CLEA o BEI eee ee _ 84,165 74 


For grading, excavation for stone foundation walls, etc., ‘ 

labor of putting concrete under foundation walls of 

main building, building sewers, ditches, fences, tempo- 
. rary sheds, Office: blacksmith shop, ete... 2. see ae 100,450 50 
For miscellaneous expenditures for cement, lumber, lime 

and stone, materials used about the grounds by the 


Commission; Fens rsAere.."14\. deed Uismic.ee - Bea hiad ee eee 5,539 66 
For materials for sewer from grounds to Chemung canal, 7,245 28 
HOr SW1itCh On SId]e TACK s shss sata at se bis Re ee ee 500 25 
Or aYONabeCtS ETOCS: Fyiess ies. Sexevetg sind Av binds fe RGtty aoe ae 11,030 00 
For main building, completed work...... $57,924 09 
Hor materials: On aandvdiasoes Coe Cn ee 60,462 31 

' 118,386 40 
For yard wall, completed work .......... $49,807 02 
Or IACETIAIS OU Lal (> wtoe. cote Riera eee 38,968 25 
88,775 77 
LOLALOL acta Ox pendi cares i.cs, ¢ so. 5 suclata tel heuci ie $423,307 06 
For amount due contractors, in addition to the above, in 
the-Torm,0L reserved. percentage se < 44s nies ee ee 31,943 28 


$455,250 34 


COMMENTS. 


The resolution of the senate, under which this report is made, 
requires, in addition to the ground covered thus far, to report whether 
any commissioner or officer employed by them have been guilty of any 
acts of negligence or fraud. 

The commission has sought carefully to investigate all the acts of 
the former officers and commissioner s, and have stated them in as much 
detail as consistent with the limits of a report, without attempting to 
draw inferences. 

The fact that work done by days’ work has cost more than it might 
tales been contracted for, is nothing new in the performance of public 
work. 

The fact that there have been two architects when there should have 
been but one, that there have been too many superintendents of the work, 
receiving extraordinary compensation, and not all judicious selections, 
is quite apparent. This, however, may have been the result of error of 
judgment, without any imputation of fraud. 

‘The same may be said of the improvident purchase of materials in 
advance of its requirements. : 


No. 22.] 25 


The fayor to contractors in the character of the work, and in the 
estimates of materials, does not necessarily impute fraud in the com- 
mission. 

The art of contractors in securing advantages in the construction of 
public work have been successful, in many cases, without fraud on the 
part of employer. 

This commission neither wish to be the accusers or apologists of 
their predecessors. We have endeavored faithfully to lay before you all 
their transactions, from which you are as competent as this commission 
to judge of the fidelity of the parties named in this report. 

No dereliction on the part of this or former commissions can detract 
from the merits of this institution, or lessen the necessity of putting 
it in operation. 

It will be seen by the foregoing that the amount expended on the 
work for which estimates were made, has not greatly exceeded the esti- 
mates, and the causes of this increase are submitted, as explained by 
the architect. 

The amount necessary to complete the estimated work, according to 
this showing, is $661,039; deducting from this changes recommended, 
$53,640; reducing expense, it leaves $607,399. ‘This includes the com- 
pletion of the yard wall, but does not include steam-heating, laying out 
grounds, fencing, architects, superintendents, and clerical and office 
expenses. 

Leaving the completion of the yard wall, laying out the grounds and 
fencing to be performed by prison labor, and adding steam-heating and 
superintendence, etc., which should not exceed $42,601, and the build- 
ing can be ready for the use, for which it is designed, at an additional 
outlay of $650,000. Add to this $479,000, already appropriated and 
expended, or due or back percentage, and it makes $1,129,000 —the 
cost of finishing all, except what it is proposed to do by prison labor. 

We regret we could not have furnished this report at an earlier date, 
believing it would have modified in your annual message the state- 
ment of the cost of this building, and insured your recommendation 
of an appropriation that would have secured the speedy completion of 
an institution having as high a claim upon the state as any other in the 
interest of humanity and reform. | 

We have no reason to question the wisdom of the designers of this 
institution, and, with the exceptions of the alterations mentioned going 
to enhance the price of the structure, we do not believe the accommo- 
dation required could have been secured by a less expensive building. 

The application of so large an amount of appropriation in the pur- 
chase of land; the construction of reservoir; in grading; in search- 
ing for quarries, and in paying for materials in advance of the work, 
have, we apprehend, created a mistaken notion as to the extravagance 
of the architect’s designs. 

Any building of the dimensions of this, proportionally designed, 
with skillful regard to architectural effect, will, in drawings, artfully 
prepared, present a picture of palatial effect ; such pictures with shade 
and color, embellished with ornamentations, not all contemplated, 
and only placed in the drawing to improve the picture, have been 
exhibited by the architects or their draughtsmen, and, we doubt not, 
created a false impression as to the character of the structure. 


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26 [Sznare, No. 92.) 


It should be remembered that respect to just proportions and archi- 
tectural effect in the erection of a building does not necessarily 
increase the expense over that of clumsy and unsightly structures. 

We believe that in two years the building may be made available for 
purposes for which it is intended, at a cost not exceeding that stated ; 
and confidently recommend an appropriation that shall secure such 
result, in which recommendation we respectfully solicit your con- 
currence. 

Humira, N. Y., January 15, 1874. 


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APPENDIX “A.” 


To Board of Commissioners of State Reformatory, Elmira, N. Y.: 


GENTLEMEN — The undersigned, having been requested to report to 
your honorable board a.brief history of the presentation of plans for 
State Reformatory, with the changes that have been made, from time 
cg time, with the cost.of same, etc., beg leave to present the following 

acts : 

A circular to architects for competition plans, offering premiums of 
five, four, three, and two hundred dollars, for plans for proposed State 
Reformatory, and, among other instructions, requesting them to report at 
the Delavan House, in the city of Albany, on or before the 28th day of 
September, 1870. This circular was signed by all the commissioners, 
and was dated Albany, August 24,1870. See said circular, page 24, 
of Senate Document, No. 106, 1873. 

At a meeting of the board of commissioners, at the Delavan House, 
in the city of Albany, September 28, 1870, plans were presented by 
Messrs. Bryant and Rodgers, architects of Boston; also by J. R. 
Thomas and A.J. Warner, architects, both of the city of Rochester, 
N. Y., and by the undersigned, entered under the firm name of 
Woollett & Ogden, of the city of Albany, N. Y. At that meeting 
gentlemen were present interested in prison architecture and discipline, 
among whom was George M. Hubble, Esq., one of the board of com- 
missioners, who selected the site for State Reformatory, under Session 
Laws 1869, chapter 408. Mr. Hubble, after an examination of the 
design of undersigned, and hearing the reasons upon which it was 
based, suggested that the privileged class of prisoners in division D 
should not be required to take their meals in the cells, but should have 
a mess-room, distinct, with reading-rooms, etc., and suggested an 
elongation of the north wing, to contain rooms for those purposes, and 
so impressed the commissioners with his views on the subject, that Mr. 
C. C. B. Walker, the then president of the board of commissioners, 
requested undersigned to make a sketch to add to the end of the north 
wing, that would give the accommodations required, which was done 
during the recess of the board. It was treated as a pavilion, so as to 
harmonize with the payilion on the south. This sketch was pinned 
on to principal story of undersigned competition plans, and became 
a part of it. When presented, it seemed to be satisfactory to all con- 
cerned. But to secure a proper balance of the building, the south 
wing was extended to same length, and treated externally as a pavilion, 
and was intended to be three stories in height, and fitted up for the 
residence of a deputy warden. But, on further consideration of 
the matter, it was determined to erect solitary cells in this part of the 
building. The suggestion was made for this change by the late Gen. 
Amos Pilsbury, and approved by the commissioners, and was made 
after the plan was approved by the governor. 

It may not be out of place to state that Gen. Amos Pilsbury was 
requested by the commissioners to supervise the getting up of the 


28 [SENATE, 


working plans of the reformatory, and he acted on that request and 
spent much time in the office of the undersigned, up to the time of his 
resignation, and every matter upon which information was needed was 
referred to him as the representative of the commission. 

At a meeting of the commissioners, held at the Albany penitentiary, 
January 25, 1871, the premiums were awarded to the competitors, as 
follows : 


Woolletét & Ogden, first premium......... esse eeeees $500 00 
Bryant & Rogers, second premium ..........0.sceceee 400 00 
J, &. homas, third preminm. 2), gga st.tcales oe SU Alone 300 00 
Ay J. Warner, fourth premimnm ey: 2) ee tee 200 00 


At this meeting of the commissioners, held in the evening, the first 
premiated design, made by the undersigned, was approved by Gov. 
John T. Hoffman, Comptroller Asher P. Nichols, and State Engineer 
Van R. Richmond. All the drawings were then at the penitentiary, 
including undersigned’s perspective, now in commissioners’ room at 
Elmira, and a second plan on vellum cloth, now in my possession. 

At a meeting of the commissioners, held at the Delavan House, 
Albany, February 28, 1871, William L. Woollett, of the city of Albany, 
was appointed architect in chief, and Andrew J. Warner, of the city 
of Rochester, supervising architect of the State Reformatory to be erected 
at Elmira, N. Y., and were bound by contract, duly signed and dated - 
Albany, February 28, 1871, in which it is provided that they are to 
receive but one fee, viz., three per centum on the cost of building said 
works, to be divided between them equally. 

The history of this transaction is as follows: The commission was 
divided as to the appointment of architect, and from the best informa- 
tion obtainable at the time, it seemed that no one of the competitors 
could secure the appointment. ‘This led to the joint proposition to the 
commission of the undersigned and Mr. A. J. Warner — the former to 
make the designs, etc., and the latter to supervise the work, which was 
accepted and acted upon as set forth above. 

In regard to the design and drawings approved by the governor and 
state officers, as provided by law, they are those which have formed the 
basis from which the working plans have been made and are now in 
use in executing the work of the State Reformatory, with the exceptions 
as are hereinafter set forth. 

It should be noticed here, that the competition plans and designs 
were made to aid the commissioners in forming a judgment of what 
was best to adopt for this new institution; to show them what it would 
be in its internal arrangements; how it would appear, from the per- 
spective drawing; and what it would cost, as set forth in the accom- 
panying estimate; and, of course, was not intended to be used by 
contractors to erect the building. Before any movement could be 
made toward erecting the building, new drawings had to be prepared 
to a larger scale, as minute as possible in all matters of detail, and 
figured, etc., and made to reveal to the mind of the builder just what 
was required. This required much time and labor, and the competition 
designs, drawings and estimates were used as a guide, so far as prac- 
ticable. 


No. 22.] 29 


The substitution of said stone ashlar instead of brick for the super- 
structure of the building, was the subject of much discussion on the 
part of the commission and examination on the part of the architects 
and superintendent, and was estimated to cost, at the time, from the 
best information obtainable, ($25,000) twenty-five thousand dollars 
more than facing with pressed brick, based upon a cost of (60 cents) 
sixty cents per foot, but the price at which the rock-faced ashlar has 
been contracted for, viz.: (85 cents) eighty-five cents per foot, will 
make it cost more than that sum. The contracts for this rock-faced 
ashlar with George W. Aldridge, are dated 28th of December, 1871. 

The substitution of fire-proof floors with wrought-iron beams and 
brick arches instead of wood, in the guard-room part of the building, 
the corridors, and the pavilions, was acted on at a meeting of the com- 
missioners, held on the 10th of November, 1871, at Elmira, and an 
estimate of the cost made. This change was recommended by the 
architects at that meeting, it being thought a judicious change. The 
contractor for this work is George Worthington, and the contract bears 
date December 28, 1871. 

The substitution of cast-iron for window frames, in place of wood, 
was acted upon by the commissioners at the meeting of November 10, 
1871. 

In regard to the time of the change of the facing of cells, from com- 
mon to pressed brick, the undersigned has no knowledge. The reason 
for the changes set forth herein, so far as undersigned has any knowl- 
edge, are as follows: For the adoption of stone it was thought, that as 
the region was represented as abounding in stone suitable for a build- 
ing of this kind, and could be procured at a reasonable cost, it would be 
better to use a more durable material than brick. The introduction of 
the iron beams was thought to be judicious and for the best interests 
of the state, notwithstanding the increased cost, especially as the cor- 
ridors could be made fire-proof by the introduction of a single floor. 
The undersigned has no doubt of the soundness of this view, in regard 
to the fire-proofing. The introduction of the iron window frames were 
introduced with the same views, no doubt; but it must be admitted, with 
less reason, as the burning of window frames would not jeopardize the 
building or permit the escape of prisoners, as the windows are to be 
provided vith iron gratings, and, further, that the introduction involved 
a large expenditure. The introduction of the pressed brick, for the 
outside of the cells, adds to their cost, but makes a neater and a better 
job. The foregoing are all the changes made from what was originally 
contemplated in estimate accompanying competition plans, so far as 
thange of material is concerned. (See annexed detailed statement.) 

In regard to the change in plans, the following are the facts. In 
the ground plan made on vellum cloth, and being the one presented to 
the governor and state officers, the added pavilion on the south wing 
was designed for a residence of deputy warden, but, as solitary cells 
had not been provided, this part of the plan was changed, on the advice 
of Gen. Amos Pilsbury, and with the approval of all concerned. 

In the competition drawings, the laundry was put on the floor with 
the kitchen; this was ordered out by the commissioners and is to be 
provided for in a separate building, and is so drawn on the ground 
plan on vellum cloth before alluded to. 

In the competition drawings the corridors were intended to be 50 


30 [SENATE, 


feet wide. In the working drawings made for the building these were 
increased to 54 feet at the suggestion of Gen. Amos Pilsbury, and were 
approved by the commissioners. ! 

In making the working drawings it was found necessary to elevate 
the guard-room part of the building, namely, in the roofs, etc., but as 
no part of this has been contracted for up to this time no extra expense 
has been incurred thereby. 

Original estimate; cost of building as per competition 


plansiat aidldtahwhwadoon- an ss 4nee Mild het aoe $680,000 00 
Add tibritwoparalionss fins otek ean bishi ve tonne 84,000 00 
Add for raising roof of centers cant. Deceit. da. bey rs 5,000 00 
Laundry iniseparate buildingeny . welt. as os. Ne dsnates 15,000 00 

<p Cdst;.as-per!plans .ashapproredia Kk. do. di0s. asd. nes be $784,000 00 
Add -eostofvashlanaie /sav. ena eid F Mav $43,750 00 
Add costof: dvon: beams: #.\ls ee 3? sane See 32,500 00 
Add cost of iron window frames........... 23,400 00 
Making building four feet wider........ ... 17,000 00 

Changes by. commission «.).!..e vianwies kira att. yelig 116,650 00 

Vetal?, slits. 26 metinet aah. bs dertg dbs aes tase "... $900,650 00 
Amount increased over estimate by additions of commis- 

sion) Arlee layin a) Ah geese Daal ie a RL: ee $116,650 00 
Amount of detailed estimate as given to Senator Wood.. $713,000 00 
Add cost of foundation walls, exterior. ...........0 eee. 26,149 00 
Add cost of foundation walls, interior............0+e8- 2,500 00 
Add cost'of foundation walls of cells...............008 22.000 00 
Add cost of pressed brick on cells, extra............00. 4,650 00 
Addextra .on costo flagging! 07.954 12 IO ON.A6G Te 41,880 00 
Add forty per cent to cast-iron bill...............000- 23,600 00 
Excavations and grading... 0.0. 6c eee te ee ee 20,000 00 

$853,779 00 
Tharmdry: ror as Ta eae eae $15,000 00 
Four workushopsiyeyy 4), 20, HOPE O ee 60,000 00 
Engine and boiler-house.............e0008 25,000 00 
Outside tdrainagery Me V8, RP Eeo Re, 10,000 00 
—————-_ 110,000 00 
Estimate as based on present plan...........eeeec eens $963,779 00 
Estimate as based on competition plan..............6. 900,659 00 
Difference’? v6.20 27 HAP URD YE MPN GOA S17 $63,129 00 
This difference between the two estimates explains itself 

by the extra weight on iron bill... .........+-++++- $23,600 00 

Hisite GOst On Lapoin gates ved Se seme ene este cs tee 41,880 00 


; $65,480 00 


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Amount seemed to have been expended on building 


Brmet so yeusnris cI SAN. 6a. sale. Lieven = ax ota i er aie $272,740 00 
PomEL CNEL ED GMAT Uo Er tet ac Senet olar Crete a he wikia aint cece) eke 30,000 00 
Ly er cade ies tte ae ak hia MAY foic $302,740 00 
POMOC pectiMN Ale... i hoo sec osha cece ss $963,779 00 
PaNleTNO LATS.) [2 aa Fads obliga Ait ame arta otek ches Bea 302,740 00 
MEPPOL OT COsce aac seansnleh vtec a Yi TICS «hide ehar diate CMT A $661,039 00 


If deductions proposed in my other report are made.... 53,640 00 


Amount required to finish building ETBON TOOE Leh $607,399 00 


With the following exceptions, which, owing to certain important 
things not being decided, cannot be now estimated with any degree of 
accuracy: steam heating, laying out of grounds, fencing, architects’ 
fees, superintendents, clerks, etc., office expenses, etc., all of which will 
go to increase the cost above within estimate. 

The undersigned would call attention to several items of addition 
to the above estimate, based on the working drawings, and being addi- 
tions to estimate, as presented to Senator Wood. 

1st. Extra on the flagging. This estimate was made before the flag- 
ging was contracted for, and was based upon the best knowledge the 
undersigned could obtain as to its price. But such flags, when they 
came to be contracted for, were found to be very difficult to obtain. 
Hence, they cost about double the price put in estimate. 

2d. The estimate of undersigned on the cast-iron work is based 
upon the weight of metal, as shown in his working drawings, and as 
the work so far delivered shows a large proportionate increase over 
the figured weight, and as the iron is paid for by the pound, of course, 
to obtain a correct view of the amount required in building reforma- 
tory, this increase in weight must be added. 

The items of laundry, work-shop, boiler-house, etc., are based on a 
general estimate, as no drawings for these have been prepared, and, of 
course, may vary somewhat, although they are based on the under- 
signed’s views, as at present entertained as to those requirements. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

WILLIAM L. WOOLLETT, 
Architect-in- Chief. 
Ewmira, Dec. 20, 1873. 


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Memorandum of amounts of materials in the construction of the 


reformatory reservoir: 


Clearing and grubbing (5,3, A. ) (cleaning 73%)......... 
388 cubic yards of excavation from puddle ditch, 50 
GOTLUS, 4 sis paises pune ke borate is bettas Sete mA beta eat, herd a rai 

769 mucking, 1 foot deep, from puddle ditch to up- 
perslope, 2Oicente, ise: .« Ate, COR hee 

22,920 cubic yards embankment in reservoir dam, 40 
CEYI UB ji safe !bia bh to sean 5 jos Aguiar Siete bina AEN EEE? 


769 cubic yards puddling in puddle ditch, 75 cents.. 
3,510 cubic yards puddling from top of ditch to within 
4 feet top: of dam,.7,cents ..wsp ar gui 

217 cubic yards excavation for masonry for waste- 
WELT, OO. CONTE .. wo. veh dis nasi otestic Sree ae eee 

239 cubic yards excavation in ditch below waste- 
WOlr,. 30. CONTE. sigue msisw fore bin « minds lene c ere 

135 cubic yards excavation for discharge pipes, 30 
CODLLS®« sini 0/ehs 14 ahobe <u sptlerpodgielaials & , siepn rent eee 

1,250 cubic yards excavation for ditch for pipes from 


dam. to reformatory, 30 cents...» .:.i15 «lam «lo. a1 | 
1,250 cubic yards excavation for filling the ditch over 

Pipe, 20 CONS 55:7 Se eet seagsvaeots al ee ee a 
2,646 feet B. M. lumber under pipes through dam, 

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17-8, a yards paving in cement in waste-weir, $4, 


40.2, ; cubic yards concrete under paving, $6........ 
135-4, cubic feet masonry in cement, foundation of 
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322, cubic yards concrete under foundation of pipe, 
BOL tee cies EMORL fol SMe ois. «ure eee ene 

556 cubic yards broken stone filter over pipes, $2.. 

5854 superficial feet coping cut on waste-weir, $1.. 

178 cubic yards paving, with brush in tail race, $2, 
Cost of gate-house above foundation.................. 
Cost of cast-iron pipes, transportation, etc ............ 
Use of engine, pumps, etc., keeping water down ....... 
Engineering, CLG srcisds ty a 'eunlo 2 a dates here tee aistem boreal es Mee tte 
Delivering pipes and laying same, etc...............+. 


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194 
230 


9,168 
516 


2,632 
108 
71 
40 


$24,905 


50 
00 
70 


00 
(6) 


50 


00 


— 


No. 22.] 33 


A lye: 


Memorandum of grading up the reformatory grounds, excavation 


for walls, cellars, sewers, etc. : 
2,865 cubic yards excavation for road on south of re- 


POLITE COCVEAE aD Us COLUUG sc oi. ar misters stein a's 

2,307 cubic yards excavation for road on north of re- 

formatory-atis0icen ty .'aa:< a paiaie'are sos les) Gaye 

12,783 cubic yards excavation for grounds east and south 

OMPLCLOVINALOT YAO. COULS .ayhe ois. «lets eae 6 

30,992 cubic yards excavation for grading site of re- 

ROTA LOL VE Ce OUR CCI US «tetas sels ete s sateies es ae 

19,048 cubic yards excavation for quarry northwest of 

PEMITCUONY, AL is tee geela ned ake tehaiers Cie eal te ios 

4034 cubic yards excavation for quarry northwest of 

PELOTIMALONVS AUC Lew sates tire eee ora s choco eres 

2,787 cubic yards excavation for ceilar of guard-room 

buildings te Oveents Bats ou tie a es ode ote 

1,621 cubic yards excavation for foundation of cells 

BOOWCOTape ee mets Raat itistileieierdivte Hiern ws iare elt + 

3,817 cubic yards excavation for foundation for walls 

POUT niaretiiy our CONUS sy Start re eeee nett es 

2,117 cubic yards excavation for foundation for yard 

Bia eyalroOtcemiar or te stuns ystat.lc eete tan atte tet 

234 cubic yards excavation for foundation for Fair- 

bank’s scales at'50 cents. vi. ee ec eo 

1,433 cubic yards excavation for sewer in yard at 75 

GOT US ag ete calattel of atmo eseatetaton er taerrrel ol eive'sls/e'eioh el era's 

3,838 cubic yards excavation for sewer from reforma- 

tory to Chemung canal at 50 cents......... 

212 cubic yards excavation for surface drain in yard 

bea 0 CONG rr aula cL temeats Nein yiieteelaene s&s 

265 cubic yards excavation for sewer-pipe along west 

wall: outside; at-40- centei 04 ce. FOE LY 

1,555 cubic yards excavation for roadway west of yard 
Wak lide G Of, CO BIS 8 ph’ tehileahs shay: dwn ash ana) dette oie ) 

17,679 cubic yards excavation in ditches and taken from 

gidenbil lat Oreentss ae. sects staat. SS Ar eyiaek 

3,654 cubic yards excavation for making road from 

reformatory to canal at 40 cents ........... 

104400 cubic yards exeayation. 4 Lotabs od «wn oisjs an elere 


493 rods of board fence (building same) at 50 cents, 
6624 cubic yards concrete under foundation walls, ex- 


— 
= 


clusive of materials, at $2..... eb tae Stee tet 

5,728 square feet paving, surface drain in yard, at 4 
BCT LAE® i wachen ME’. Ciaran Bele Baa = Saathieco Re ladle 
CarvmedMLocwMalGrmnatn tins tasdtanie sats onsa bite ited hts as 


[Sen. Doc. No. 22.] 5 


$859 50 


7,071 60 
1,461 60 


$09,871 79 


246 50 
1,324 50 
229 12 


$61,671 91 


34 [SENATE, 


Brought fopward 7. ieee vies ee ieee ee nae ee $61,671 91 

1,432 lineal feet curb-stone for paved gutter at 10 
CONUS! aso) ole Pini a abey es Calas ated tah see Pee nal 143 20 

Work laying sewer from reformatory to Chemung canal, 
about 4,200 feets ata 2 cents ayia, curser sen 504 00 
Building office, iron shed and blacksmith shop at $125.. 125 00 
Total amoririty: the Rave hk SA. Pee Lk ee ) $62,444 11 

® 


MEMORANDUM OF EMBANKMENT IN GRADING UP THE GROUNDS FOR 
THE REFORMATORY. 


53,773 cubic yds. emb. grading in front of reformatory ..... $ 
3,130 ¥ 2 a south of yard wall........ 
2,339 + a e Orth 01 Yard. WA) icici 

32,823 a * a Inside of -yardy Wall. . sccd oe 
1,555 si “ protection bank west of yard wall.. 

695 7 «road leading, from, QUaITY .. 4» seuste 

94,515 

9.431 
103,746 


3,654 cub. yds.emb. making road from reformat’ry to canal, 


107,400 total cubic yards. 


6< pies 
CONTRACT WITH MESSRS. WOOLLETT & WARNER, ARCHITECTS. 


Agreement made this 28th day of February, 1871, between the board 
of building commissioners of State Industrial Reformatory to be 
erected at Elmira, Chemung county, state of New York, parties of the 
first part, and William L. Woollett, of the city and county of Albany, 
and Andrew J. Warner, of the city of Rochester, county of Monroe, 
parties of the second part, both of the state of New York: 

Witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part, by virtue of the 
power conferred on them by law, and of a resolution passed by them 
in full board, day and year first above*written, have and do hereby 
appoint the said William LL. Woollett architect-in-chief, and Andrew 
J. Warner the supervising architect of the buildings and works of the 
State Industrial Reformatory, to be erected at Elmira, state of New 
York, and that they do hereby covenant and agree to and with the 
said William L. Woollett and Andrew J. Warner, that they will pay 
commission to the amount of three per cent on the cost of the build- 
ings and works of said State Industrial Reformatory at such times 


No. 22. ] 35 


and in such manner as shall hereinafter be set forth, provided that 
such sums are paph due and payable according to the terms of this 
contract, in the judgment of the said parties of the first part. 

It is herein provided that no money for commissions on the buildings 
and works of the State Industrial Reformatory shall be paid to either 
of said architects, William L. Woollett and Andrew J. Warner, unless 
an order is presented to the parties of the first part setting forth 
the amount of money to be paid, and to whom, and bearing the signa- 
tures of the said William L. Woollett and Andrew J. Warner, or their 
legal representatives. It is hereby provided that the percentage of the 
architects shall be based upon the fnll cost of all the work done for 
which they are employed by the said parties of the first part, to make 
plans, specifications and give supervision. 

It is herein provided that the said parties of the second part shall 
make all of the drawings of every kind required, with all of the speci- 
fications, and write all contracts, make estimates and supervise and 
direct the construction of the buildings and works, and assist in locat- 
ing the buildings, and certify to amount due contractors, and perform 
the duties as architects for the entire completion of the buildings and 
works of the State Industrial Reformatory. 

It is herein provided that the said parties of the second part shall 
make reports, estimates of cost, and meet with the board of commis- 
sioners, or their committees, from time to time, as the parties of the 
first part may direct or require. 

Jt is hereby understood between said William I. Woollett and 
Andrew J. Warner, that they are to share in the commission that may 
be due on the buildings and works of this said reformatory, share and 
share alike, and that orders which may be made for moneys on the 
said parties of the first part shall be based upon this condition. 

In witness whereof, the said parties have subscribed their names and 
affixed their seals, the day and year first above written. 

(Signed) 
In presence of 
A. ROBERTSON. 


Cc. C. B. WALKER, SEAL. 
AMOS PILLSBURY, SEAL. 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, SEAL. 
ABRAM H. MILLER, SEAL. 


FRANK H. ATKINSON, SEAL. | 


WILLIAM L. WOOLLETT, [szat.] 
ANDREW J. WARNER, [SEAL] 


66 B 2 No} 
NEW YORK STATE REFORMATORY GENERAL CONTRACT. 


Articles of agreement, made and concluded the thirty-first day of 
August, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, between John 
Kiley, of the city of Rochester, county of Monroe, of the first part, 
and the building commissioners of the State Reformatory, at Elmira, 
New York, of the second part, whereby it is covenanted and agreed as 
follows: ‘The said John Kiley, party of the first part, hereby cove- 


36 [SENATE, 


nants and agrees to furnish all materials, which shall be of a sound and 
good quality, and perform all the labor necessary to construct and to 
tinish, in every respect, in the most substantial and workmanlike man- 
ner, the foundation walls of the State Reformatory, as the same are 
located at Elmira, New York. 

The construction of the aforesaid work shall be in all respects 
according to the specifications hereunto annexed, which are to be con- 
sidered a part of this contract. And it is further agreed, that if at 
any time any overseer or workman employed by the party of the first 
part shall be declared to be unfaithful or incompetent by the superin- 
tendent and engineer having charge of the said work embraced in this 
contract, or by the commissioners, ‘the said party of the first part, op 
notice of such declaration, shall forthwith dismiss such person, and 
shall no longer employ him on any part of the work. 

And it is further agreed, that this contract, in every respect, shall 
progress in such order, and at such places in the work, and at such 
times and seasons as the commissioners or the superintendent and 
engineer may direct. 

And it is hereby further mutually agreed, that the said party of the 
first part will perform the work embraced in this contract; and, also, 
that the commissioners in charge will pay out of the moneys appro- 
priated therefor, in full compensation for the same, the following rates : 

For rubble masonry, laid in hydraulic mortar, at the rate of $6 per 
cubic yard. 

The prices above specified are to be in full compensation for all 
materials and labor required to put the same into the work herein con- 
tracted for, and complete the whole, in all respects, as provided in this 
contract. 

And it is also hereby further mutually agreed, that the aforesaid 
party of the first part shall receive and use,in the work herein con- 
tracted for, such timber, stone, iron, and other materials as shall be 
furnished by the commissioners, and allow therefor such sum or sums 
as said materials have cost said commissioners, and the value thereof 
shall be deducted from the total amount of work done. 

And to provide for the speedy and just settlement of this contract 
and to prevent disputes, it is hereby further mutually agreed, that the 
superintendent and engineer, for the time being, in the employ of the 
commissioners on the work herein contracted for, shall, in all cases, 
determine the amount or quantity of the several kinds of work inelu- 
ded under this contract and the full compensation to be paid therefor, 
and within sixty days after the work, in all respects, shall have been 
completed according to the terms and conditions of this contract, 
shall present a final account and estimate of the same to the commis- 
sioners, who shall review, and when satisfactory, approve and pay for 
the same. 

And it is further agreed, that in case of any misunderstanding or 
disagreement between the superintendent and engineer and said party 
of the first part, in regard to making up the final account of work on 
said contract, the said account shall be referred to the commissioners, 
who shall examine the same and decide whether it is made up accord- 
ing to the strict terms of the specifications and contract, and such 
decision shall be final and conclusive. 

And the said party of the first part hereby further agrees to per- 


No. 22. ] 37 


form all the work contracted for as specified in this contract, but any 
alterations in the form, dimensions, location or manner of doing work 
ordered by the commissioners and superintendent and engineer, shall be 
made as directed, and when the several quantities of work, or any of 
them, shall be increased beyond the amounts exhibited at the time of 
letting this contract, such increase shall be paid for at the rates herein 
provided for the same class of work, and whenever the several quanti- 
ties of work, or any one of them, shall, in any respect, be diminished 
below the amount or amounts exhibited at the time of the letting 
this contract, the party of the first part hereby agrees to perform the 
remaining work at the prices stipulated in this contract, and to make 
no claim for damages in consequence of such increase or diminution. 

And it is hereby further agreed, that fifteen per cent of the amount 
of work or materials furnished under this contract, at the contract 
price thereof, shall be reserved by the commissioners until the whole 
work which is the subject of contract shall be fully and entirely com- 
pleted. 

And it is further agreed, that within fifteen days from the expira- 
tion of each month in which the work herein contracted for shall have 
been prosecuted according to the terms and conditions of this contract, 
the aforesaid commissioners will pay therefor such sums as shall not, 
together with former payments, exceed the amount actually due under 
this contract according to the estimate of the superintendent and 
engineer, except the sum due on the final account; but if, at any time 
after such payments have been made, the commissioners or superin- 
tendent and engineer employed on the work shall discover that any of 
the work included in the estimates on which such payments have been 
made, has been performed in an unworkmanlike manner or contrary 
to the said specifications, the commissioners or superintendent and 
engineer shall direct the party of the first part to take down and 
rebuild such work in the manner required by the said specifications, 
and no further payments on this contract shall be made until the said 
party of the first part shall comply with said directions. 

No materials shall be estimated until delivered on the work. 

And within thirty days after the work, in the opinion of the afore- 
said superintendent and engineer, shall have been completed as above, 
the aforesaid commissioners shall pay the said party of the first part 
the sum which, according to said final account, shall remain due, and 
take a receipt in full for the same. 

Provided, however, and it is expressly covenanted and agreed on the 
part of said party of the first part that the work hereby specified and 
embraced in this contract shall be fully performed and completed on 
or before the twentieth day of November, in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and seventy-one. 

And it is further mutually understood and agreed, that in case the 
execution of this contract shall be suspended by parties of the second 
part at any time and for any cause, no claim for prospective profits on 
work not done shall be made or allowed; but the party of the first 
part shall have a right to complete the work when the party of the 
second part shall order it to be resumed. 

And it is further agreed, that if in the opinion of the superintend- 
ent and engineer the said party of the first part shall refuse or neglect 
to prosecute the work embraced in this contract, or shall violate any 


38 [SENATE, 


of its provisions or perform the work in an improper manner, the said 
superintendent and engineer may certify the same in writing to the 
board of commissioners, and, in such case, the said board, or a majority 
of them, shall have power to cer tify and declare that this contract has 
been violated and abandoned by the said party of the first part, and 
on the making of such certificate, the said contract shall be aban- 
doned, and said board may proceed to contract for said work with any 
other person. 

And the said party of the first part further promises and agrees not 
to give or sell, or allow to be given or sold by any agent or agents in 
his or their employ, any ardent spirits to the workmen or any other 
' person on or near the location of said building, or allow any to be 
brought on the work by the laborers or any other persons. 

And the said party of the first part hereby further promises and 
agrees to perform the several stipulations of this contract by himself 
and workmen under his immediate superintendence, and not by a sub- 
contract or sub-contractor. 

And it is hereby further understood and agreed between the parties 
to this contract, that in case of delays arising on the progress of the 
work, either from neglect or inability on the part of the said party of 
the first part which may retard the completion of the work, said com- 
missioners may direct the superintendent and engineer to employ a 
sufficient force, and purchase the necessary materials to complete the 
work, or such portion of it as may be necessary, and according to 
specifications hereunto annexed, and all expenses incurred in the per- 
formance of such work shall be paid for by the said commissioners on 
the affidavit of the superintendent and engineer, and the amount shall 
be charged to the account of the aforesaid party of the first part. 

JOHN KILEY, 
Contractor. 
C. C. B. WALKER, 
A. H. MILLER, 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, 
F. H. ATKINSON, 
Commissioners. 


Specifications for foundation walls of State Reformatory, at Elmira, 
New York: 


The foundation walls shall be composed of sound, well-shaped stone 
and such as shall be approved by the superintendent and engineer, not 
less than eight inches in thickness and three feet area of bed. 

The smoothest and broadest bed shall in all cases be laid down, and 
when the setting bed is rough and uneven, the projecting points ‘shall 
be hammered off; all high projecting points on the top bed shall also 
be hammered off so as to give the succeeding stone a firm bearing. In | 
all cases the bed shall be properly prepared by leveling up before the 
next stone is laid, but no levelers shall be placed under a stone by 
raising it from its bed. 


No. 22.] 39 


One-fourth of the wall shall be composed of headers that shall extend 
through the wall. Two full base courses will be required on the top of 
the concrete. First base, five feet eight inches wide; second base, four 
feet eleven inches, and wall four feet five inches on base, with two 
inches better, making four feet three inches at level of surface on the 
outside of building. 

The whole of the wall shall be laid in hydraulic mortar, composed 
of the best quality of cement and clean sharp sand, in such proportions 
as the superintendent and engineer may direct, and the wall shall also 
be thoroughly grouted with similar materials as above specified, for 
mortar, each course to be grouted as fast as laid, and cut-offs shall be 
made every eight feet in each course, so that the grouting shall be done 
in sections of that length. ) 

All shall be smoothly laid on the outside, and the top of the walls 
shall have two coats of strong cement laid upon the top of the wall, 
and raised in the center so as to protect it from the elements; all the 
holes, etc., that may be required in the foundation walls, shall be made 
by the contractor as may be required, and as may be set forth on the 
respective drawings for drains, pipes, ete. 

It will be observed by the contractors, that no breaks are made in 
this foundation wall for the pilasters of the front, and that good flag- 
stone, not less than four inches in thickness, shall be laid on the top 
of the wall so as to joint under the buttresses in order to protect the 
said wall. 

[Note. It will be observed by the contractor, that there will be a 
sub-cellar under the guard-room part of the building. The walls of 
which will be built in connection with the other walls of the founda- 
tion, and same as set forth for them as regards base, etc. ] 

The face of the west wall and that of the area wall, both-of which 
are exposed to view in the area, shall be laid in regular courses not less 
than one foot in thickness (the course of stone in the foundation-wall, 
over the lintel of the doors and windows, shall be 14 inches high—see 
diagram), and shall have good beds and builds, and shall be of suffi- 
cient width to extend into the walls so as to bind the same. A draft 
shall be cut on the face of the stone to set them by, and the other por- 
tion of the face shall be rock-dressed. 

This kind of work shall commence on the level of the area floor, 
and be built up the heights set forth in the drawings. All this work 
shall be neatly pointed up where exposed to view. 

The inside of the octagon on the northwest corner of the wall shall 
be lined with paving brick, laid in cement. 

The area walls shall be built in the best possible manner, and shall 
be plastered smooth on the outside, and shall be built even with the 
purface of the ground at 70 + base line, 


FLUES. 


One on each side shall be built as set forth in the drawings; shall 
be built with brick joints struck flush; flues 12 by 16 inches in the 
clear, with soot-drawers three feet from floor line. 

Cut-stone sills and lintels for the two windows, and the doors shall 
be of stone cut as per working drawings, all hammer-dressed and set 
in best manner. (See bill of cut stone.) Four blocks of cut stone 
shall be furnished and used for the ends of the bearing beams of the 


40 : [SENATE, 


wrought-iron floor. Said blocks shall be two feet long, one foot six 
inches thick, and shall be set the heights indicated on the drawings. 
Blue stone flag shall be set on the offset of the wall, and placed so 
that the wrought-iron beams can rest-upon the same. Said blue stone 
flag shall be 12 inches wide, and not less than three inches in thick- 
ness, all set level and true for the reception of the beams of the floor. 
The foundation walls shall be laid at the following rate, viz: From 
18th to the 30th of September, 1871, at the rate of 50 cubic yards per 
day; from the 30th of September to the 21st of October, 1871, at the 
rate of 75 cubic yards per day; and from the 21st of October, 1871, to 
the completion of the contract, at the rate of 100 cubic yards per day. 


SP 3: 


SUPPLEMENTARY CONTRACT WiTH JOHN KILEY. 


Additional articles of agreement made and concluded this 11th day 
of November, in the year 1871, between John Kiley, of the city of 
Rochester, county of Monroe, and state of New York, of the first part, 
and the building commissioners of the State Reformatory at Elmira, 
N. Y., as by law appointed, of the second part, whereby it is cove- 
nanted and agreed as follows: The said John Kiley, party of the first 
part, hereby covenants and agrees to furnish all materials, which shall 
be of a sound and good quality, and perform ail the labor necessary to 
construct and to finish in every respect, in the most substantial and 
workmanlike manner, the walls for the yard of the State Reformatory 
as the same are located at Elmira, N. Y. 

The construction of the aforesaid work shall be in all: respects ac- 
cording to the specifications hereunto annexed, which are to be con- 
sidered as a part of this contract. 

And it is hereby further mutually agreed that the said party of the 
first part will perform the work embraced in this supplementary con- 
tract, and also that the commissioners in charge will pay out of the 
moneys appropriated therefor, in full compensation for the same, the 
following sums at the following rates: 

For rubble masonry, laid in hydraulic and quick lime, at the rate 
of $10 per cubic yard; for coping and water table, at the rate of 75 
cents per superficial foot; all to be according to the plans and speci- 
fications prepared therefor. And it is mutually provided and agreed 
by and between the parties to this contract, that in the event the par- 
ties of the second part are unable to comply with this agreement, by 
reason of want of funds because of failure to make the necessary ap- 
propriation by the state for that purpose, that then the party of the 
first part shall make no claim for damages on that account, and BEM 
relinquish any claim for that reason ; but, in the event that the wor 
under this agreement is suspended for lack of funds on the part of the 
party of the second part, this agreement is still to continue in full 


No. 22.] 41 


force, and is not to be rescinded, but as soon as the parties of the sec- 
and part are in funds, by state appropriation or otherwise, the per- 
formance of this agreement by the party of the first part is to proceed 
as if it had not been suspended or interrupted. And it is further mu- 
tually provided and agreed by and between the said parties that, in the 
progress and performance of all the work under this agreement, and 
furnishing of materials, all the provisions, conditions and stipulations 
contained in the original agreement between the same parties, dated 
August 31, 1871, are to apply to, become, and are hereby made a part 
of this agreement, except as herein otherwise provided. 

And it is further provided and agreed, that any per cent of moneys 
to be retained by the parties of the second part, as a security for the 
performance of the party of the first part, shall be retained by them 
and kept as a fund to abide the event of such performance, and are not 
to be otherwise used. And as soon as it is decided that such contract 
is fully performed, said percentage is to be paid over to the party of the 
first part; and it is further provided and agreed, that in the event that 
the performance of this agreement shall cease, or is relinquished by the 
said parties by mutual consent, any and all percentage of moneys 
retained as security for performance, shall be paid over down to the 
time of such relinquishment. The above-mentioned work shall be ver- 
formed subject to the inspection and supervision of the architects and 
the superintendent and engineer. 

(Signed) JOHN KILEY, 

Contractor. 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, 
A. H. MILLER, 
C. C. B. WALKER, 
JOSEPH WARREN, 
PeHwATEKINSON; 
Building Committee. 


Specifications for yard-wall, gate-ways, watch-towers, etc., for State 
Reformatory, Himira, N. ¥. 


ELMIRA, November 9, 1871. 

The foundation shall be composed of sound and well-shaped stone, 
and such as shall be approved by the supervising architect or superin- 
tendent and engineer, not less than six inches in thickness. 

The smoothest and broadest bed shall in all cases be laid down, and 
when the setting bed is rough and uneven the projecting points shall 
be hammered off. All high, projecting points on the top bed shall be 
hammered off so as to give the succeeding stone a firm bearing. In all 
cases the bed shall be properly prepared, by leveling up, before the next 
stone is laid; but no leveler shall be placed under a stone by raising it 
from its bed. One-fourth of the wall shall be composed of headers, 
and shall extend through the wall. The stone shall be well bedded on 
the bottom of the trenches, and shall be carried up with a batter, as 


[Sen. Doe. No. 29.) 6 


42 [SENATE, 


set forth on the drawings, to the line of the grade, and shall be smoothly 
laid on the outside, so as to be secure from the effects of the frost; and 
shall be laid in best quality of cement, with clean, sharp sand, in such 
proportions as the supervising architect or superintendent and engineer 
shall direct. Each course shall also be thoroughly grouted with similar 
materials as above specified for mortar. 

The superstructure of this wall shall be laid with the building stone 
from the quarry of Latta Brook, and shall be what is called rubble wall, 
with face on both sides, and neatly pointed, as the work progresses, and 
made to conform to the drawings in every respect. 

The work shall be well bonded, and stone be selected, with good 
beds and builds and faces, and shall be laid upon their quarry beds in 
best manner, by regular masons, in best kind of cement and quick-lime 
mortar, of such quality as shall be approved by the supervising archi- 
tect or the superintendent and engineer. 

The buttresses of the walls shall be built on the outside of the same, 
and shall commence on the outside of said foundation walls at the 
grade line and extend up the height, and diminish as set forth in 
the drawings. Said walls shall be built up the heights set forth on the 
drawings, and the top of said walls shall be skreed off level and true 
with cement, ready for the reception of the stone coping. 

Good, flat stone shall be laid, to extend the whole thickness of the 
walls, and placed so as to come under the joints of the coping of the wall. 
The contracting mason will notice that two courses of stone, of equal 
thickness, shall be made to project under the coping stone on the out- 
side of the wall (see section of the wall). These may be from four to 
six inches thick, and made to project three inches each. 

The walls inclosing the entrances or gate-ways shall be built in the 
same manner as set forth for the other walls, no buttresses being re- 
quired on them. These walls shall be carried the same height and 
coped in the same manner as set forth for the other walls. The 
water-table on the outside and on the batter of the foundation shall be 
formed of selected flagstone, with straight, square edge, not less than 
six inches in thickness and twelve inches in the wall, and set so as to 
form a drip or water-shed of haif an inch. All the heading joints shall 
be well made, and said water-table shall be made to butt or die against 
the sides of the buttresses. 

The walls are to be made to butt or die against the sides of the tur- 
ret of the reformatory; all to be neatly fitted to the stone work of the 
same. 

The watch-towers be seven in number, and shall be built as set forth 
in the drawings; will be octagonal in form, and shall be built in the 
manner and the heights set forth, and the inside of the towers shall be 
laid smooth, and neatly pointed up, and the work carried up on the 
inside of the roof to the under side of the wall-plate of the roof. 

‘I'he freize on the outside, under the cornice, shall be formed by hay- 
ing the stonework of the same project two inches from the face of the 
other work. 

The cornice, above the freize anchors, ete., shall be of cast-iron, and 
the subject of another contract; but the contracting mason will build 
into walls, etc., all anchors, etc., that may be furnished to him for the 
purpose of securing the cast-iron cornice. ‘The stairs on the inside of 
the towers shall be of iron, and the subject of another contract. 


No. 22.] 43 


Loops or windows in the upper section of the watch-towers shall be 
made, as set forth in the drawings, with the jambs splayed on the out- 
side with sill and lintel of cut stone. (See cut stone.) The frames of 
these windows shall be set as required, and will be furnished with sash, 
which will be the subject of another contract. The jambs of these 
openings shall be neatly dressed. ‘The jambs of the doors to these 
watch-towers, both on the yard and the top of the wall, shall be neatly 
dressed and made to conform with the drawings in every respect. 

The drains from each of the watch-towers shall be put in by the 
contracting mason, as set forth in the drawings. These drain-tile or 
pipe to be furnished to the contracting mason. 

These drain-tile shall be put in so as to accommodate a water-closet or 
urinal in each of the watch-towers, if required. Kight-inch glazed tile 
pipe, extending through at bottom of wall, under doorway of watch- 
tower. 

The cut stone for the gateways, the doorways, and the sills and lin- 
tels, for the loops or windows in the watch-towers, hooks, blocks, etc., . 
that may be required for doorways, etc., will be the subject of another 
contract; but all such cut stone shall be set by the contracting mason, 
and in case the work shall be let by the foot or yard, the said cut stone 
shall be measured in to the rubble wall. 


Specifications for coping of the yard-wall, gate-ways, walis, etc. Land- 
ing for watch-towers, etc., for State Leformatory, Elmira, N. Y. 


ELMIRA, November 9, 1871 


Said walls shall be covered with best quality of flag, of such quality 
as shall be approved by the supervising architect, and superintendent 
and engineer, and shall be from six to. eight inches in thickness, and 
five feet in width. ‘The outside edges shall be dressed square, and 
reduced to a regular thickness by leveling the top edge. 

All the joints shall be cut true, and well fitted, and the joints filled 
with fine cement, and neatly pointed up. 

The rough sides of the stone flag shall be laid up. The landing 
opposite of doors in the upper section of the watch-towers shall be the 
width indicated on the drawings, and shall be neatly dressed to the 
required form, and shall be supported by cut-stone corbels, as per 
drawings. ‘The floor of the upper section of the watch-towers shall be 
formed of six-inch flag, cut out for the well holes, ete., of the stairs, 
and neatly fitted as required by the drawings. ‘These landings shall 
have a bearing of not less than six inches on the walls before being 
built into the walls. 

This coping shall be neatly fitted to the turrets of the reformatory. 

All of said copings shall be well set in the walls and bedded in 
cement, and made a first-rate job, in every respect, when done. 


44 [SENATE, 


(t3 B EN all sl 4, 
CONTRACT WITH GEORGE WORTHINGTON FOR IRON. 


Articles of agreement made and concluded this 28th day of Decem- 
ber, 1871, between George Worthington, of the town of Owego, county 
of Tioga and state of New York, of the first part, and the building 
commissioners of the State Reformatory at Elmira, New York, as by 
law appointed, of the second part, whereas it is covenanted and agreed 
as follows: 

The said George Worthington, party of the first part, hereby cove- 
nants and agrees to furnish all the wrought and cast-iron work required 
for the said building up to the top of, and including the cells, and to 
the underside of the outside cornices, including the balcony brackets, 
but excepting all other balcony and stair work. 

The construction of the aforesaid work shall be in all respects 
according to the drawings and plans exhibited on the day of the letting 
of the work, and according to the specifications hereunto annexed, 
which are to be considered as part of this contract. 

And it is further agreed that this contract in every respect shall pro- 
gress in such order and at such times and seasons, and in such places 
in the work as the commissioners or the superintendent and engineer 
may direct. . 

And it hereby further mutually agreed that the said party of the 
first part will perform the work embraced in this contract, and also 
that the commissioners in charge will pay out of the moneys appro- 
priated therefor, in full compensation for the same, the following sums 
at the following rates, viz.: 

For rolled-iron beams 124 inches high, all drilled for tie-rods and 
anchor, and fitted and set, 64 cents per pound. 

For rolled-iron beams nine inches high, all drilled for tie-rods and 
anchors and fitted and set, 65 cents per pound. 

For cast-iron work, fitted and set, 6 cents per pound. 

For wrought-iron work, fitted and set, 8 cents per pound. 

The prices above specitied are to be in full compensation for all 
materials and labor required to put the same into the work herein 
contracted for, and to complete the whole in all respects as provided 
in thiscontract. And to provide for the speedy and just settlement of 
this contract, and to prevent disputes, it is hereby further mutually 
agreed that the superintendent and engineer for the time being in the 
employ of the commissioners on the work herein contracted for, shall 
in all cases determine the amcunt or quantity of the several kinds of 
work included in this contract, and the fall compensation to be paid 
therefor, and within sixty days after the work, in all respects, shall have 
been completed, according to the terms and conditions of this con- 
tract, shall present a final account and estimate of the same to the 
commissioners, Who shall review and, when satisfactorily approved, pay 
for the same. 

And it is further agreed that, in case of any misunderstanding or 
disagreement between the superintendent and engineer and the party 
of the first part, in regard to making up the final account of work on 
said contract, the said account shall be referred to the commissioners, 
who shall examine the same and decide whether it is made up accord- 


No. 22.] 45 


ing to the strict terms of the specifications and contract, and such 
decision shall be final and conclusive. 

And the said party of the first part hereby further agrees to perform 
all the work contracted for as specified in this contract, but any altera- 
tions in the form, dimensions, location or manner of doing work 
ordered by the commissioners, architect or superintendent and engineer, 
shall be made as directed, and when the several quantities of work, or 
any of them, shall be increased beyond the amount or amounts 
exhibited at the time of letting this contract, such increase shall be 
paid for at the rates herein provided for the same class of work, and 
whenever the several quantities of work, or any of them, shall in any 
respect be diminished below the amount or amounts exhibited at the 
time of letting this contract, the party of the first part hereby agrees 
to perform the remaining work at the prices stipulated in this contract, 
and to make no claim for damages in consequence of such increase or 
diminution. 

And it is further mutually agreed that fifteen per cent of the amount 
of work done or materials furnished under this contract, at the con- 
tract prices thereof, shall be reserved by the commissioners until the 
whole work which is the subject of contract shall be fully and entirely 
completed. 

And it is further agreed, that within fifteen days from the expiration 
of each month in which the work herein contracted for shall have 
been prosecuted according to the terms and conditions of this contract, 
the aforesaid commissioners shall pay therefor such sums as shall not, 
together with former payments, exceed the amount actually due under 
this contract according to the estimate of the superintendent and 
engineer, except the sum due on the finalaccount, But,if at any time 
after such payments have been made, the commissioners or the super- 
intendent and engineer employed on the work, shall discover that any 
of the work included in the estimates on which such payments have 
been made, has been performed in an unworkmanlike manner, or cou- 
trary to the said specifications, the commissioners or the superintendent 
and engineer shall direct the party of the first part to take down and 
rebuild such work in the manner required by the said specifications, 
and no further payments on this contract shall be made until the sdid 
party of the first part shall comply with said directions. No materials 
shall be estimated until delivered on the work. 

And within sixty days after the work, in the opinion of the archi- 
tects and the superintendent and engineer, shall have been completed 
as above, the aforesaid commissioners shall pay the said party of the 
first part the sum which according to such final account shall remain 
due, and take a receipt in full for the same, and it is further mutually 
provided and agreed by and between the parties to this contract, that 
in the event the parties of the second part shall suspend the execution 
of this contract by reason of want of funds to carry on the work 
because of failure to make the requisite appropriation by the legislature 
of the state for that purpose, that then the party of the first part shall 
make no claim for damages on that account and hereby relinquish any 
claim for that reason; but in the event that the work under this 
agreement is suspended for lack of funds on the party of the 
second part, this agreement is still to continue in full force and is not 
to be rescinded, but as soon as the parties of the second, part are in 


46 [SENATE, 


funds by state appropriations or otherwise, the performance of this 
agreement by the party of the first part is to proceed as if it had not 
been suspended or intercepted, 

And it is further provided and agreed, that in the event that the 
performance of this agreement shall cease or is relinquished by the 
said parties by mutual consent, any and all percentage of moneys 
retained as security for performance shall be paid over to the party of 
the first part down to the time of such relinquishment. And it is fur- 
ther agreed, that if at any time any overseer or workman employed by 
the party of the first part shall be declared unfaithful or incompetent 
by the superintendent and engineer having charge of the work em- 
braced in this contract or by the commissioners, the said party of the 
first part, on notice of such declaration, shall forthwith dismiss such 
person and shall no longer employ him on any part of the work. And 
said party of the first part hereby further promises and agrees to per- 
form the several stipulations of this contract by himself and workmen 
under his immediate superintendence, and not by a sub-contract or 
sub-contractor, except by consent of the party of the second ‘part. 
And it is hereby further understood and agreed between the parties to 
this contract, that in case of delays arising in the progress of the work, 
either from neglect or inability on the part of the said party of the 
first part, which may retard the completion of the work, said commis- 
sioners may direct the superintendent and engineer to employ a suffi- 
cient force and purchase the necessary materials to complete the work, 
or such portions of it as may be deemed necessary and according to 
the specifications hereto annexed, and all expenses incurred in the 
performance of such work shall be paid for by the said commissioners 
on the affidavit of the superintendent and engineer, and the amount 
shall be charged to the account of the aforesaid party of the first part. 
And it is further agreed, that in the event of the suspension of the 
work mentioned in this contract for the period of six months, by 
reason of the legislature failing to make the necessary appropriation to 
carry on the same, the party of the second part shail direct the super- 
intendent and engineer to make up an estimate and account to the 
time of such suspension and present to the commissioners, who shall 
review, and when correct and satisfactory, shall proceed to pay the 
same (if in funds), including the percentage reserved up to the time of 
such suspension. 

All the work embraced in this contract shall be performed subject to 
the inspection and supervision of the architects and the superintend- 
ent and engineer. 


(Signed) GEORGE WORTHINGTON. 


C. 0. B. WALKER, 
ABRAM H. MILLER, \ 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, 
JOSEPH WARREN, | 
Building Commissioners under chapter 427, Laws of 1870, 
for the erection of the State Prison or Industrial Re- 
formatory at Elmira, Chemung county, New York. 


No. 22.] 47 


SPECLFICATIONS. 


Specifications for cast and wrought-iron work for the fire-proof floors of 
kitchen, yuard-room and chapel of what is called the guard-room part 
of the building for the State keformatory to be erected at Kinira, N. Y. 


‘FOR COMMISSIONERS OF THE SAME. 


Cast-iron columns shall be made as set forth on the accompanying 
drawings. Columns in the sub-cellar, one and one-quarter inch skin, 
and shall be sixteen inches in diameter, top and bottom, molded cap, 
and shall stand upon cast-iron base, two inches thick and twenty 
inches square. The columns of the kitchen shall be sixteen inches at 
bottom, and fifteen inches at top, molded cap and made to connect 
with flanges to be secured together with screw bolts, one and one-quar- 
ter inches in diameter. Said flanges shall be one and one-half inches 
thick, and skin of column one inch thick, shall have molded caps 
cast upon them same as those for sub-cellar. The columns of guard- 
room shall be fifteen inches in diameter at bottom and thirteen inches 
at top, shall be cast with flange on bottom, one and one-half inches 
thick, bolted to flange on column below, and shall have flange on top 
one and one-half inches thick, made to serve as a seat for the wrought- 
iron bearing beams. ‘These columns shall have a skin of one inch 
thick; these columns shall have molded bases, shaft plain up to the 
surface molding. Incut on base molding and incut under the 
carved molding of the sub-base. The upper part of the shaft shall 
be fluted’ with reeds in lower part of the same, returned on the top 
ends. Incut and ornamentation under the neck molding of the cap- 
ital. The capital shall be made to slip over the core of the columns, 
and rest upon the neck molding of the same (see note). Said capi- 
tal shall be made from a full-size drawing, to be furnished by the 
architect. The columns on the north and south sides of the guard- 
rooms for the support of the iron lintels and the wall above shall be 
same design as set forth for columns described above. All the base 
plate for the columns of the sub-cellar shall be recessed for the col- 
umns. The tops and bottoms of the columns and flanges of the same 
shall be cut to the length in a lathe, and all the required bolt holes 
made as may be required by the drawings. 

[Notr. The capital of the guard-room columns shall be molded in 
plaster, and sent to the architect at Albany, for his inspection, before 
the carved cap is made. All to be done at the cost of the contracting 
iron founder. | 

Lintel. The cast-iron lintels over the columns on the north and 
south sides of the guard-room shall be made from working drawings, 
and will consist of bottom plate and two upright flanges, with solid 
flanges across the same, four in each piece of lintel, one at each end, 
and fitted with two screw bolts in each, so as to make a continuous 
lintel of the same. The east and west ends of the lintels shall have 
skew backs cast in them for the purpose of receiving discharging 
arches. ‘These lintels shall have rule joints cast on the lower arises 
with suitable stops at the columns, and the inside face next the guard- 
rooms shall be paneled with raised molding between the columns. 
No parts of these lintels shall be less than one inch in thickness, and 
the joints planed, fitted and screwed together with bolts. The mold- 


48 [SEN ATE, 


ing for the surface of the lintels shall be planted on and secured by 
6CreWS. 

Cast-iron ornamental frets shall be cast and put in by screws on 
each side of the bearing beams; shall be put on with screws tapped 
into the wrought-iron bearing beams. ‘These will be cast in plates not 
to exceed half an inch in thickness, and perforated, and in suitable 
lengths. To be made from full size working drawings. 

Sill course for north and south openings of the ouard- room shall be 
as set forth on the drawings, with joints under the center of the col- 
umns, with a molded nosing and a riser on the prison side. The step 
part shall be one inch in thickness, and the riser part half an inch, and 
shall be well secured to the wall. (See working drawings.) ‘The upper 
surface of the sill shall be fluted as may be directed. This sill 
course shall have such holes, etc., made in them as may be directed by 
the architects. 

Rolled wrought-iron beams for the kitchen, guard-room and chapel 
floors. ‘The beam to be used will be known as the “ Wadsworth wrought- 
iron beams.” The bearing beams, for the support of the kitchen floor, 
will be formed of two twelve and one-quarter inch heavy beams, bolted 
together with cast-iron chairs; said beams double, to weigh one hun- 
dred and twenty pounds to the foot. The bearing ‘beams of the guard- 
room floor shall be formed of two twelve and a quarter inch heavy 
beams, bolted together with chairs, etc., same as set forth for those of 
the kitchen floor. 

The bearing beams of the chapel floor shall be formed of two twelve 
and one-quar ter light beams, weighing 83 pounds to the foot double. 
All these bearing beams shall have chairs of cast-iron furnished with 
them, and secured with one inch round bolts, one in every four feet of 
space. ‘These beams shall have a bearing on the walls of not less than 
15 inches, and shall be bolted to the cast-iron columns with one and a 
quarter inch bolts, and shall be furnished with anchors, one and a 
quarter inch round iron, bolted on the ends of the beams, and to extend 
to within four inches on the outside of the wall. (See drawing.) 

Floor beams of the kitchen floor shall be nine-inch heavy beams, 
butted upon the bearing beams, and shall be tied together with bolted 
plates and shall have a bearing on the walls of not less than eight 
inches. Said beams shall weigh 30 pounds to the foot. [Floor beams 
for the guard-room floor shall be nine-inch heavy, 30 pounds to the 
foot, same as those for the kitchen. 

Floor beams for the chapel floor shall be nine-inch light beam, same 
in other respects as set forth for the kitchen floor. Said beams shall 
weigh 234 pounds per foot. ‘These beams shall have three-eighths inch 
holes drilled in the top flange, three feet apart, for bolts of sleepers. 

Tie bolts. Kach bay of the floors shall have two lines of one-inch 
round iron tie rods; these shall extend through from front to rear, and 
shall be placed a little below the center of the beams, and shall be well 
anchored into the walls of the building. 

Anchors. All the floor beams shall have holes in them near the ends 
for the purpose of anchoring to the walls, and suitable pastas shall be 
furnished and used. 

Painting. All these beams shall be painted in two oats of paint 
before being put into the building. 

Setting, etc. All these specified ‘beams, anchors, etc., shall be delivered 


No. 22.] 49 


at the building, and set in their place in the building and made a first 
rate job when done. 

All the cast-iron made under this specification shall be well fitted 
and made, as set forth in these specifications, and shall be delivered at 
the building, at Elmira, N. Y., and set up in their place in the build- 
-ing, and made complete in every respect. All the iron work shall have 
two coats of paint before setting up in the building. 

All the work of this specification shall be subject to the inspection 
of the supervising architect or the superintendent and engineer, before 
set up in the building. 


Specifications for cast-iron window frames for State Reformatory, to be 
erected at Himira, N. Y. 


FOR COMMISSIONERS OF SAME. 


Said window frames shall be made as set forth on the detail drawings, 
shall bé cast in separate parts, and secured together by screws as per 
drawings. The pulley stiles shall be planed, and the two parting strips 
shall be planed on all sides and the inside edge of stop beads next to 
the sash. All of which will be put on and secured by screws. The 
circular heads of these window frames may have the stop heads and 
parting strips cast upon them, and those that are set forth to be planed 
siall be made to intersect with them. The sills shall be made of cast- 
iron, and the pulley stiles and linings, etc., shall be secured to the sills 
by screws. The circular heads of the frames shall be screwed to the 
pulley stiles by flanges and screws. ‘The pulleys used shall be the best 
quality of axle pulley in use, and shall be fitted to the pulley stile, and 
secured by screws in the usual manner. The molding on the outside 
of the frame shall be of cast-iron, made in suitable lengths and secured 
by screws to the window frames. It will be observed by the contract- 
ing iron founder, that the sash shall be of wood and made in three 
heights, the top and bottom sash hung with cords and weights, and 
the center sash made stationary; the circular sash in the head of the 
frame, and the two spandrels shall be stationary, and the outside stop 
beads of these may be cast upon the frames, but the inside stop beads 
put in with screws. These sash will stand in the same plane of the 
frame as the top sash. 

All parts of this iron work shall be painted in two good and suffi- 
cient coats of best paint before being put in the building. These 
frames shall be set in their proper places in the building, and shall be 
securely braced by suitable timbers, so as to be kept plumb and true, 
during the erection of the walls around them. 

The pulley stiles shall have suitable pockets put in them, as may be 
directed, with the pocket pieces neatly fitted and secured by screws. 
(See detail drawings.) 

The other iron window frames that may be required in the building 
will be made similar to these set forth herein, and the drawings accom- 
panying the same. Working drawings will be furnished for all the 
other windows. 


[Sen. Doe. No. 22.1] Tx 


50 [ SENATE, 


Specifications of wrought-iron gratings for large windows of State 
Reformatory, to be erected at Hinira, N. Y. 


FOR COMMISSIONERS OF SAME. 


Said gratings shall be made in best manner, of best quality of Amer- 
ican iron, and shall be of the following sizes, to wit : Upright bars, one _ 
and one-eighth inches in diameter; cross bars and semi-circular head, 
three and a quarter inches by five-eighths inches and all the mecting 
rails or bars, shall be three and a quarter inches by three-eighths inches 
each, making the two rails three-quarter inches thick when together. 
It will be observed by the contractor that these gratings are made in 
three parts, and so adjusted as they may be put in after the erection of 
the building, and the meeting rails shall be riveted together, not less 
than four rivets in each bar, and the ends of the upright bars in the 
meeting rails, shall be riveted into the counter-sunk holes for the same 
in the meeting rails, and the upright bars shall be made to fit, and 
made tight in the rails of the same. 

The irons for the support of these iron gratings shall be built in the 
walls at the points indicated on the drawings, and shall be three 
and one-half inches wide by three-fourths thick and shall be secured in 
three places by rivets, one inch in diameter. These irons shall be made 
in two prongs for the most, and shall extend into the walls not less 
than fifteen inches. All these irons shall be built into the walls as 
directed. . ; 

All these gratings shall have two good and sufficient coats of red 
lead before being used in the building. 


bbs 8 } Lene 


Contract with George W. Aldrich for brick and stone work for super- 
structure of reformatory from grade line to line of cornice. 


Articles of agreement made and concluded this twenty-eighth day of 
December, eighteen hundred seventy-one, between George W. Aldrich, 
of the city of Rochester, county of Monroe and state of New York, 
of the first part, and the building commissioners of the State Reforma- 
tory at Elmira, New York, as by law appointed of the second part. 

Whereby, it is covenanted and agreed as follows: The said George 
W. Aldrich, party of the first part, hereby covenants and agrees to 
furnish all the stone and brick work between the top of the founda- 
tion wall (said walls being on a level with the surface of the ground) 
and the line cornice, including cells, required in building the super- 
structure of the State Reformatory, as the same is located at Elmira, 
New York. 

The construction of the aforesaid work shall be, in all respects, 
according to the drawings and plans exhibited on the day of the letting 
of the work, and according to the specifications hereunto annexed, 
which are to be considered as part of this contract. 


No. 22.1 ae. 


And it is further agreed that this contract, in every respect, shall 
progress in such order and at such times and seasons, and in such places 
in the work as the commissioners or the superintendent and engineer 
may direct. 

And it is hereby further mutually agreed that ‘the said party of the 
first part will perform the work embr aced in this contr act, and also that 
the commissioners in charge will pay out of the moneys appropriated 
therefor, in full compensation for the same, the pene sums at the 
following rates, Viz. : 

Por dimension stones, cut and set in the wall, two dollars and twenty- 
five cents per superficial foot. 

Yor irregular or block work, cut and set in the walls, eighty-five 
cents per superficial foot. 

For brick work, laid and measured in the wall at twenty brick to the 
cubic foot, thirteen dollars and fifty cents per thousand. 

The prices above specified are to be in full compensation for all 
materials and labor required to put the same into the work herein con- 
tracted for, and to complete the whole in all respects as provided in 
this contract, and to provide for the speedy and just settlement of this 
contract, and, to prevent dispute, it is hereby further mutually agreed 
that the superintendent and engineer for the time being in the employ 
of the commissioners on the work herein contracted for, shall in all 
cases determine the amount or quantity of the several kinds of work 
mcluded in this contract, and the full compensation to be paid there- 
for, and within sixty days after the work in all respects shall have been 
completed according to the terms and conditions of this contract, 
shall present a final account and estimate of the same to the commis- 
sioners, Who shall review and, when satisfactory, approve and pay for 
the same. 

And it is further agreed that in case any misunderstanding or disa- 
greement between the superintendent and engineer and said party of 
the first part, in regard to making up the final account of work on said 
contract, the said account shall be referred to the commissioners, who 
shall examine the same and decide whether it is made up according to 
the strict terms of the specifications and contract, and such decision 
shall be final and conclusive. 

And the said party of the first part hereby further agrees to perform 
all the work contracted for as specified in this contract, but any altera- 
tions in the form, dimensions, location or manner of doing work 
ordered by the commissioners, architect or superintendent and engineer, 
shall be made as directed, and when the several quantities of work, or 
any of them, shall be increased beyond the amount or amodunts exhib- 
ited at the time of letting this contract, such increase shall be paid for 
at the rates herein provided for the same class of work, and whenever 
the severa] quantities of work, or any one of them, shall in any respect 
be diminished below the amount or amounts exhibited at the time of 
letting this contract, the party of the first part hereby agrees to per- 
form the remaining work at the prices stipulated in this contr act, and 
to make no claim for damages in consequence of such “increase or 
diminution. 

And it is further mutually agreed that fifteen per cent of the amount 
of work done or material furnished under this contract, at the contract 
price thereof, shall be reserved by the commissioners until the whole 


52 [SENATE, 


work which is the subject of contract shall be fully and entirely com- 
leted. 
E And it is further agreed that, within fifteen days from the expiration 
of each month in which the work herein contracted for shall have been 
prosecuted according to the terms and conditions of this contract, the 
aforesaid commissioners will pay therefor such sums as shail not, 
together with former payments, exceed the amount actually due under 
this contract, according to the estimate of the superintendent and 
engineer, except the sum due on the final accounts. But if, at any 
time after such payments have been made, the commissioners or the 
superintendent and engineer employed on the work shall discover that 
any of the work included in the estimates on which such pay- 
ments haye been made, has been performed in an unworkmanlike 
manner, or contrary to the said specifications, the commissioners or 
the superintendent and engineer shall direct the party of the first part 
to take down and rebuild such work in the manner required by the said 
specifications, and no further payments on this contract shall be made 
until the said party of the first part shall comply with said directions. 

No materials shall be estimated until delivered on the work. 

And, within sixty days after the work, in the opinion of the architects 
and superintendent and engineer, shall have been completed as above, 
the aforesaid commissioners shall pay the said party of the first part 
the sum which, according to said final account, shall remain due, and 
take a receipt in full for the same. 

And it is further mutually provided and agreed by and between the 
parties to this contract, that, in the event the parties of the second 
part shall suspend the execution of this contract by reason of want of 
funds to carry on the work, because of failure to make the requisite 
appropriation by the legislature of the state for that purpose, that then 
the party of the first part shall make no claim for damages on that 
account, and hereby relinquished any claim for that reason, but in the 
event that the work under this agreement is suspended for lack of 
funds on the part of the party of the second part, this agreement is 
still to continue in full force, and is not to be rescinded, but as soon as 
the parties of the second part are in funds, by state appropriation or 
otherwise, the performance of this agreement by the party of the first 
part is to proceed, as if it had not been suspended or interrupted. 

And it is further provided and agreed that, in the event that the 
performance of this agreement shall cease, or is relinquished by the 
said parties by mutual consent, any and all percentages of moneys 
retained as security for performance, shall be paid over to the party of 
the first part down to the time of such relinquishment. 

And it is further agreed that if, at any time, any overseer or work- 
man employed by the party of the first part shall be declared unfaith- 
ful or incompetent by the superintendent and engineer having charge 
of the work embraced in this contract, or by the commissioners, the 
said party of the first part, on notice of such declaration, shall forth- 
with dismiss such person, and shall no longer employ him on any part 
of the work. 

And the said party of the first part hereby further promises and agrees, 
to perform the several stipulations of this contract by himself and work- 
men under his immediate superintendence, and not by asub-contract or 
sub-contractor, except by consent of the party of the second part. 


No. 22.] 53 


And it is hereby further understood and agreed between the parties 
to this contract that, in case of delays arising in the progress of this 
work, either from neglect or inability on the part of the said party of 
the first part, which may retard the completion of the work, said 
commissioners may direct the superintendent and engineer to employ 
a sufficient force and purchase the necessary materials to complete the 
work, or such portions of it as may be deemed necessary, and accord- 
ing to the specifications hereunto annexed, and all expenses incurred 
in the performance of such work shail be paid for by the said commis- 
sioners on the affidavit of the superintendent and engineer, and the 
amount shall be charged to the account of the aforesaid party of the 
first part. 

And it is further agreed that, in the event of the suspension of the 
work mentioned in this contract for the period of six months, by 
reason of the legislature failing to make the necessary appropriations 
to carry on the same, the party of the second part shall direct the su- 
perintendent and engineer to make up an estimate and account to the 
time of such suspension, and present to the commissioners, who shall 
review, and when correct and satisfactory, shall proceed, if in funds, 
to pay the same, including the percentage reserved up to the time of 
such suspension. 

All the work embraced in this contract shall be performed subject 
to the inspection and supervision of the architects and the superin- 


tendent and engineer. 
GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE. 


C. C. B. WALKER, 
ABRAM H. MILUER, 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, 
JOSEPH WARREN, 


Building Commissioners under chapter 427, Laws of 
1870, for the erection of the State Prison or Indus- 
trial Reformatory, established at Elmira, Chemung 
county, N. Y. 


SPECIFICATIONS. 


In the following specifications and notes, the different parts of the 
building are denominated as follows: 

Guard-room. The main center building, containing sub-cellar, 
prison, kitchen, guard-room proper (from whence its name), and 
chapel. The center of this forms the center of the whole structure. 

Pavilions. The four ends of wings, surrounded by four octagonal 
turrets, each with cornice and roof higher than wings. 

Prison part are the long corridors (containing cells), between pavil- 
jons and between guard-rooms and pavilions. 


Specifications for cut stone for State Reformatory, to be erected at 
EHimira, N. Y. 
FOR COMMISSIONERS OF THE SAME. 


The stone to be of the kind hereafter set forth. . 
Ashler. The ashler shall extend from the level of the present foun- 


54 [SENATE, 


dation walls, up to the under side of the cut stone water table, and 
shall be a rusticated ashler, cut on a batter, as set forth on the draw- 
ings. A square rustic, as per working drawings, with fine-tooled 
draught on margin, forming a continuous panel on each course of 
ashler. The face of the panel, within the lines of the draught or mar- 
gin, to be rock or cleavage face, and to be made as bold and prominent 
as possible. All the beds, builds and joints to be cut true. All the 
vertical joints shall be so placed as to form a good bond, and as the | 
architect or superintendent and engineer may direct. Ashler not less 
than nine inches in thickness, including the batter. Holes for clamps 
shall be cut as may be directed. All ashler to be neatly fitted at inter- 
nal angles, and made to intersect. ‘The ashler blocks, at the breaks of 
the piers, shall be as thick as may be required to form the joints as 
near the face of the receding ashler as possible. ‘The ashler blocks, 
forming the base of the turrets, shall be of sufficient thickness so 
as to form heads to said stone, not less than twelve inches, measuring 
on the bed of the stone. It will be observed by the contracting stone- 
cutter, that the ashler at the base of the turrets extends above the line 
of the ordinary water table, in view of which, the proper stops will 
have to be cut to receive the water table, and also the se or brick of 
the face work, as the case may be. 

The contracting stone-cutter will notice that six of the saree start 
from the ground, With square bases. The two ten feet ones (one on 
each side of the guard-rcom), and the four twelve feet ones on the north 
and south of the interior of the court. Five of said turrets will have 
door-ways in them of cut stone. These door-ways shall be of cut stone, 
fine tooled, and made as per detail and working drawings, with. sills 
extending the whole thickness of the walls, and the lintel or hoods 
over the doors, and will be made fair with the finish on the inside of 
the walls. Suitable wash will be cut on the sills, and a wash on the 
lintel or hood. All this work to be fine-tooled, and the water-table 
and ashler to be made to stop against it. our door-ways on the ele- 
vations opening on the court. Said doors, being formed under the 
windows of prison-part of the building. All to be as and set forth on 
the detailed drawings, and all of said work will be fine-tooled, and will 
consist of sills extending to inside of finish walls, being the proper 
width, and flush with jambs with proper wash thereon, and shall have, 
set under the same, a platform, to be set one inc from the surface of 
the ground. ‘The jamb stones being of sufficient width to extend half 
an inch from the face of the finished plastered wall, and shall be molded 
as set forth on the drawings, and cut in connection with the ashler aud 
water table, and the sill of the window over the same, all of which is 
to be included in this work, as set forth in this specification. Tt will 
be observed, that the rustic of ashler will be returned against the 
jambs of the door- -ways, and the water table molding also. The sill 
of the window, over the said door-way, shall be cut with a rise in the 
center, so as to shed the water from the same on the sides of the 
door-way. 

It will be observed, that the windows and the doorway in the guard- 
room part of the building, commences below the line of the water table 
and ashler, and that the windows of the kitchen story of this part of 
the guard-room building, will require sills, as set forth, and an adjust- 
ment of the ashler and molded water table, both of which will be 


No. 22.] BD 


returned upon themselves, and cut and stopped upon the face of the 
jamb stones, which shall extend through to the face of the window 
frame. Window sills shall be cut with proper wash, etc., as per work- 
ing drawings. ‘The door-way into kitchen will be treated in the same 
manner as set forth for the four windows, with sill extending through 
the whole thickness of the wall, with wash, etc., cut upon the same. 
All the work shall be fine-tooled. 

Water table. ‘The water table shall be cut as per working drawing 
aud shall extend on all sides of the building and be cut with stops and 
returns, etc., where required, and with top and bed of same cut true 
and to be in suitable lengths as architects may determine, all to be fine- 
tooled and shall have suitable holes cut for clamps and hold fasts, as 
may be directed. It will be observed that the ashler and water table 
of the turrets extends above the line of the ordinary water table, and 
that proper stops will have to be cut upon the same, to meet the face 
of the neat work of the wall, brick or stone as the case may be. 

Cut-stone work. Below the line of the rusticated ashler shall be as 
follows, to wit: The face of the west wall forming rear of the sub-cel- 
lar in guard-room part of the building, and the area walls, both of 
which will be exposed to view, shall be built in regular courses not less 
than twelve inches in height with cut beds and builds and of sufficient 
thickness to extend into the wall so as to form a good bond to the same. 
A draught shall be cut on the face of said blocks to set them by, and the 
other portions of the face shall be rock or cleavage face and made as 
prominent as possible. This work shall commence on the level of the 
urea floor and build up the height set forth in the dimensions. All 
this work shall be in stone of sufficient lengths to make a good bond, 
und as the articles may determine. 

Area walls shall be faced in the same manner as set forth for the 
above-named wall. 

.The sills and lintels for the two windows and doors shall be of cut 
stone made as per working drawing, all hammer-dressed. Four blocks 
of cut stone for the ends of the wrought-iron bearing beams shall be 
furnished, two feet long, one foot six inches wide and eight inches in 
thickness, all neatly dressed. 

The coping of the area walls shall be of cut stone as per drawings, all 
hammer-dressed ten inches thick. 

The walls above the water table for the entire building will be of irreg- 
ular block work, laid up with stone from six to twenty inches in length 
and height and an average thickness in the walls of sixteen inches, 
all to have the beds and builds squared so as to lay with a joint not ex- 
ceeding one-half of an inch —the face of the stone to be left rock face 
or finish and simply pitched off at the edges; all joints must be vertical 
one with another and all beds must be horizontal one with another and 
laid by first-class mechanics, and the joints laid flush or struck as 
directed by the architects or superintendent and engineers. Stone 
shall be laid on their natural beds. 

There shall be a one-inch chisel margin draught cut on all angles and 
corners of the piers and window jambs and the reveals of the window 
jambs shall be chisel-dressed back to the window frames. 

All the cut-stone work of this specification shall be subject to the 
inspection of the supervising architect, or the superintendent and engi- 
neer, before being set in tke building. 


56 [SENATE, 


The whole of the brick and stone shall be laid in hydraulic mortar, 
composed of the best quality of cement and clean sharp sand,in such 
proportions as the supervising architect or superintendent and engineer 
may direct. 

The stone used shall be of the kind known as the Corning or Lind- 
ley stone, and shall be free from all mineral or vegetable matter. 


Specifications for brick work of the walls of the superstructure of the 
State Reformatory, to be erected at Himura, N. Y. 


FOR COMMISSIONERS OF SAME. 


Said brick work shall be laid with the best quality of hard-burnt 
brick, all laid in running bond (every six course headers), in best qual- 
ity of cement mortar; all the joints struck flush, where exposed to 
view on walls not set forth, to be plastered; all the cut-stone, ashler 
and other stone facings shall be backed up with brick, and said brick 
walls shall be commenced at the points set forth for the termination of 
the stone work, and shall be built up the respective heights set forth 
for the brick wall on the drawings; all the walls shall be built solid 
and slushed in with mortar, and shall be built straight and true, with 
close joints, and the work shall have nine courses to two feet in height; 
all the brick used in the construction of these walls shall be well 
soaked with water before being put in the walls; all the arches over 
window and door openings, over lintels, etc., shall be built as directed 
in the best manner; all cut stone, ashler and facings shall be secured 
by anchors and clamps in the best manner and as may be directed. 
The anchors at the ends of the main corridors, north and south of the 
guard-room part of the building, shall be built as set forth on the 
drawings. All iron work, wrought and cast, shall be built in the walls 
as set forth and as may be required and directed. 

The contracting mason shall brace and secure all walls in such a 
manner as to keep them in proper position, and shall cover the work so 
as to protect it from rain, sun, and the effects of frost in winter. All 
timber, boards and plank that may be required for this purpose shall 
be furnished and used by the contracting mason. All centers that may 
be required for arches, etc., shall be furnished and set by the contract- 
ing carpenter, and all the covering cut stone, etc., shall be done by the 
contracting carpenter. 

The mortar used shall be made of. the best quality of quick lime, 
and clean, sharp sand and fresh-ground cement, and used in such pro- 
portions as shall make a first rate cement mortar, in the judgment of 
the supervising architect or superintendent and engineer. 


Rr PR eee 
SUPPLEMENTARY CONTRACT WITH JOHN KILEY, FOR RUBBLE 
MASONRY. 


Additional articles of agreement, made and concluded the 30th day 
of July, 1872, between John Kiley, of the city of Rochester, county 
of Monroe, and state of New York, of the first part, and the executive 


No. 22.] ) 57 


committee of the building commissioners of the State Reformatory at 
Elmira, N. Y., of the second part, whereby it is covenanted and agreed 
as follows: The said John Kiley, party of the first part, hereby cove- 
nants and agrees to furnish all materials, which shall be of sound and 
good quality, and perform all the labor necessary to construct and to 
finish, in every respect, in the most substantial and workmanlike man- 
ner, the masonry underneath, and for the foundation of the cells, and 
also all other foundation walls under partition walls, in the corridors 
at the State Reformatory at Elmira, N. Y. The construction of the 
aforesaid work shall be, in all respects, according to the specifications 
hereto annexed, and to the direction of the engineer in charge. 

It is also understood that this agreement is supplementary to, and an 
addition to, an original contract between the party of the first part and 
the building commissioners of the State Reformatory, dated August 31, 
1871, and also a supplementary agréement between the same parties, 
dated November 11,1871. It is hereby further mutually agreed, that 
the said party of the first part will perform the work embraced in this 
supplementary contract, and also that the commissioners in charge will 
pay out of the money appropriated therefor, in full compensation 
for the same, the sum of eight dollars ($8) per cubic yard for rubble 
masonry laid in hydraulic mortar. 

And it is further mutually provided and agreed, by and between the 
parties to this agreement, that, in the progress and performance of the 
work under this agreement, and furnishing of materials, all of the pro- 
visions, conditions and stipulations contained in the original agreement 
between the party of the first part and the building commissioners of 
the State Reformatory, dated August 31, 1871, and of the supplementary 
contract between the same parties, dated November 11, 1871, are to 
apply to become, and are hereby made a part of this agreement, so far 
as the same are applicable, and except as herein otherwise provided. 

The above-mentioned work shall be performed subject to the inspec- 
tion, supervision and approval of the architects and the superintendent 
and engineer, and of such inspector or inspectors of masonry as shall 
be appointed by the said party of the second part, and shall be com- 
pleted on or before the 1st day of December, 1873. . 

(Signed) JOHN KILEY. 


CO. C. B. WALKER, 
J.D. BALDWIN, 
S. C. TABER, 
0. D. CHAMPLIN, 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, 
Executive Committee, State Reformatory Commission. 


SPECIFICATIONS 


Of the manner of constructing the rubble masonry underneath and for 
the foundations of the cells and all other foundation walls under 
partition walls in corridors at the State Reformatory at Elmira, 


The said foundation walls shall be composed of sound, well-shaped, 
and durable quarry stone, of such shape, dimensions and quality 
as shall be approved by the engineer or supervising architect. The 
smoothest and broadest bed shall be laid down, and when the setting 

[Sen. Doc. No. 22.] 8 


58 | [SENATE, 


bed is rough and uneven, the projecting points shall be hammered off, 
All high projecting points on the top bed shall also be hammered off, 
so as to give the succeeding stone a firm bearing. In all cases the bed 
shall be properly prepared “by leveling up before the next stone is laid, 
but no leveler shall be placed under a stone by raising it from its bed. 
The whole of the wall shall be laid in hydraulic mor rtar, composed of 
the best quality of hydraulic coment and clean, sharp sand in such 
proportions as the superintendent and engineer may direct; and the 
wall shall also be thoroughly grouted with similar materials as above 
specified for mortar if required by the said engineer. The stone shall 
be smoothly laid on the outside and the top of the walls shall be care- ~ 
fully leveled and covered with a good coating of strong mortar. 


pag ey (ee 


SUPPLEMENTARY CONTRACT WITH GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE FOR CUT 
STONE. 


Additional articles of agreement made and concluded the 30th day of 
July, 1872, between George W. Aldridge, of the City of Rochester, 
County of "Monr oe, and State of New York, of the first part, and 
the Executive Committee of the Building Commission of the State 
Reformatory at Elmira, N. Y., of the second part ; whereby tt is 
covenanted and agreed as follows : 


The said George W. Aldridge, party of the first part, hereby cove- 
nants and agrees to furnish all the materials which shall be of sound 
and good quality, and perform all the labor to prepare and finish, in 
every respect, in a workmanlike manner, and in full accordance with 
the specifications for the same hereto attached, the cut dimension stone 
required for the gateways, and for the jambs, sills, and lintels for the 
loops or windows in the upper sections of the watch-towers connected 
with the yard-wall of the said State Reformatory at Elmira, and also 
the cut dimension stone required for the steps, sills, jambs and lintels 
for the doorways into the lower part of the turrets from the yard of 
said reformatory. 

And the said Aldridge further agrees to deliver the said cut dimen- 
sion stone, the subject of this contract, at the several turrets and 
watch-towers at the times and in the order required by the superin- 
tendent and engineer for the time being in the employ of said building 
commissioners, ready in all respects to be laid into the work. 

And it is further mutually understood and agreed that the party of 
the first part will faithfully perform the work embraced in this ¢on- 
tract, and also that the said building commissioners will pay for the 
work when so performed, at the following rate: For dimension stone, 
cut and delivered as per contract, at the rate of $2 per superficial foot. 
It is further mutually understood and agreed between the parties 


No. 22.] 59 


hereto that this agreement is supplementary to and an addition to an 
- original agreement or contract made between the said party of the first 
part and the building commissioners of the State Reformatory, on the 
28th day of December, 1871, in relation to cut stone and other work 
in the main walls of said reformatory; and it is intended and agreed 
that all the stipulations and agreements contained in said original con- 
tract which can apply to the subject-matter of this contract, and which 
do not conflict with the expressed or implied stipulations of this sup- 
plementary agreement are to become also a part and parcel of this 
contract. 
(Signed) GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE, 


C. 0. B. WALKER, 

J. D. BALDWIN, 

S. OC. TABER, 

GC. D. CHAMPLIN, 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT. 


SPECIFICATIONS. 


The stone for gateways and for sills, jambs and lintels fcr the loops 
or windows of the upper section of the watch-towers attached to the 
yard wall of the State Reformatory at Elmira, New York, and also the 
steps, jambs, sills and lintels of the doorways into the lower part of 
the said towers or turrets, shall be composed of best quality of Corning 
stone of the dimensions shown on architect’s drawings, or as directed 
by him or the engineer in charge. 

The said stone shall be neatly bush hammer-dressed in such form as 
may be directed by said architect or engineer. No stone shall be put 
in the work, accepted or paid for, until it has been examined and 
approved by the said engineer. 

The superficial measure of the steps shall be the measure of that 
part of the upper bed and face and ends of the stone projecting beyond 
the face of yard wall, provided the same is cut as above provided, 
and generally with all of said stone the superficial measure shall be 
such portions of said stone as are exposed to view and cut as above 
described. 


66 B 22 8ek Cy 


CONTRACT WITH GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE FOR FLAGGING FOR CELLS. 


Articles of agreement made and concluded the 27th day of August, 
1872, between George W. Aldridge, of the city of Rochester, county of 
Monroe and state of New York, of the first part, and the executive 
committee of the building commissioners of the State Reformatory at 
Elmira, New York, of the second part, whereby it is covenanted and 
agreed as follows: 

The said George W. Aldridge, party of the first part, hereby cove- 
nants and agrees to furnish, cutand set complete, all of the flagging 


60 [SENATE, 


stones required for said reformatory according to the plans furnished 
therefor, and agreeable to and in conformity with the specifications 
hereto annexed. It is further agreed, that the work under this contract 
shall progress in such order and at such times as the commissioners by 
their superintendent and engineer shall direct. It is hereby further mutu- 
ally agreed, that the said party of the first part will perform the work 
embraced in this contract, and also, that the commissioners in charge 
will pay out of the moneys appropriated therefor, in full compensation 
for same, the following sums at the following rates: For all of the 
flagging stones for the cells, cut and set in the work complete, one 
dollar and fifty ($1.50) cents per superficial foot, and for the remainder 
of the flagging for the corridors, kitchens and all others that may be 
required, when cut and set in the work complete, eighty-five cents per 
superficial foot. 

It is further mutually agreed, that fifteen per cent of the work done 
or materials furnished under this contract, shall be reserved by the 
commissioners until the entire work, which is the subject of this con- 
tract, shall be fully-completed. And it is further agreed, that within 
fifteen days from the expiration of each month in which work shall 
have been done under this contract, the said commissioners will pay 
therefor such sums as shall not, with former payments, exceed the 
amount actually done under this contract according to the estimates 
of the superintendent and engineer, and within sixty days after the 
work has been completed, and the said commissioners shall pay the 
said party of the first part, the sum which, by the final account to be 
rendered by the superintendent and engineer, shall be found due to him. 

And it is further mutually agreed, that in the event that the parties 
of the second part suspend the work for lack of funds, the party of the 
first part shall not be entitled to receive prospective damages on that 
account. And it is further agreed by the parties hereto, that in case 
the contract shall be canceled by mutual consent of both parties, all 
percentage retained as security for the performance of the work shall 
be paid in full to the party of the first part. 

The work herein mentioned shall be done under the directions of the 
supervising architect and the engineer and superintendent in charge, 
and any workman employed by the contracting party, who shall by 
the said superintendent and engineer be deemed incompetent or unfaith- 


ful, shall be immediately discharged. | 
GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE. 


C. C. B. WALKER, 
STEPHEN T. ARNOT, 
0. D. CHAMPLIN, 
5. C. TABER, 
J. D. BALDWIN, 
Building Commissioners. 


SPECIFICATIONS 
Of the flagging required for the State Industrial Reformatory now in 
progress of erection at Elmira, N. Y. 


All stone shall be of dimension hereafter specified, and to be of a 
sound durable quality, such as shall be accepted by the supervising 


No. 22.] 61 


architect and the superintendent and engineer, and shall be furnished 
as fast as required. 

The flagging for the floor, or the bottom or first tier of cells, also 
those that form the ceilings of the upper tier, shall be not less than 
four (4) inches thick, and for the intermediate stone, which are to form 
the floors and ceilings, shall be not less than five (5) inches thick, and 
all visible surfaces which do not have a natural smooth and straight 
face, shall be dressed smooth and straight, and the edges shall be 
pointed straight wherever they come against the sills of the cell doors, 
and made to fit with a close joint. The balance of the flagging for the 
corridors, kitchen and all others that may be required, shall be not less 
than three (3) inches thick, and properly dressed on one side (except 
where the stone have a natural smooth and even surface); all stone shall 
be properly squared, and the edges dressed so that they will lay with a 
close joint and all set complete (all those except for the upper tier in 
cells), shall be laid and bedded in the best water-lime cement mortar, 
at least two inches thick, and all of the joints filled with cement. The 
stone for the four upper tier of cells shall be bedded in cement mortar 
at least one inch thick, and set perfectly level. ‘The stone for the cor- 
ridor floors shall be in three courses in the width of the corridors, and 
all others in accordance with the dimensions given in the bill annexed. 


SIZE OF FLAGS FOR CELLS. 


Mark. No. Size. 
S 40 8.8 x 8.8 
A 130 5.8 x 8.8 
B 220 5.8 x 8.8 
C L170 1.9 X8.8 
D 70 10.8 x 8.8 
Ge B cae 9, 


CONTRACT WITH GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE FOR PRESSED BRICK AND CUT- 
TING BELTING-STONE OR CORNICE FOR YARD WALL. . 


Articles of agreement made and concluded this 3d day of Decem- 
ber, in the year 1872, between George W. Aldridge, of the city of 
Rochester and county of Monroe, of the first part, and the executive 
committee of the board of building commissioners of the State 
Reformatory at Elmira, New York, of the second part, as follows: 

The said George W. Aldridge hereby covenants and agrees to fur- 
nish and set in the work all the pressed brick which may be required 
for facing the walls of the cells; also to do the cutting and dressing 
required on the stone cornice projections under the coping-stone of 
the yard wall of the said State Reformatory, now in progress of erec- 
tion at Elmira, New York. 

The brick to be of the best quality, equal in all respects to 
those made at Horseheads or Rochester, New York, and the manner of 


62 [Sznate, No. 22.] 


laying them, and the material therefor, shall conform and be subject 
to the conditions and stipulations in the specifications and contract of 
the brick-work made and executed December 28, 1871, and to be done - 
subject to the approval and directions of the engineer and superin- 
tendent and supervising architect; and it is further agreed that the 
work shall progress in such order and at such times as the said super- 
intendent and engineer shall direct; and it is further agreed between 
the parties hereto, that the said party of the first part will perform the 
work embraced in this contract, and that the commissioners in charge 
will pay out of the moneys appropriated therefor, in full compensation 
for same, the following prices: 

For pressed brick furnished and laid in the work at the rate of thirty 
($30) dollars per thousand. 

Kor cutting the stone cornice projections under coping on yard wall 
at the rate of two (82) dollars per superficial foot, measuring only that 
portion which is visible after being laid in the wall. 

It is further mutually agreed that 15 per cent of the amount of work 
done and materials furnished under this contract shall be reserved 
until the work which is the subject of this contract shall be com- 
pleted. 

It is further agreed that, within 15 days from the expiration of each 
month in which work shall have been done under this contract, the 
said commissioners will pay therefor such sums as shall not, with 
former payments, exceed the amount actually done under this contract, 
according to the estimates of the superintendent and engineer, and, 
within sixty days after the work has been completed, the said commis- — 
sioners shall pay the said party of the first part the sum which, by the 
final account to be rendered by the superintendent and engineer, shall 
be found due to him. And it is further agreed that, in the event the 
parties of the second part shall suspend the work for lack of funds, 
the party of the first part shall not be entitled to receive prospective 
damages on that account. 

And it is further agreed that this contract may be canceled by mutual 
consent, in which case the party of the first part shall receive in full 
the amount of the percentage retained on the contract to the date of 
cancellation. 


(Signed) GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE. 


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